Literature Assertions of John Dryden Reflected in Mac Flecknoe

摘要

John Dryden’s poem Mac Flecknoe satirizes his literary enemy Thomas Shadwell by the aid of the image of Flecknoe while it reveals some of his literature assertions. This paper tries to expound them from the following three perspectives:the atti⁃tudes towards Ben Johnson, the proposals for drama language and the selection, and the attitudes towards French classicism for the purpose of a further understanding about John Dryden.