Mac Flecknoe Resources

The Poetry Foundation offers up a great bio and link to Dryden's work.

Interested in… oh, anything Dryden ever wrote? This is the website for you.

John Dryden was also a well-respected translator, who took on Virgil's The Aeneid. We suppose that's why he makes a pretty obscure reference to the Roman epic here in "Mac Flecknoe" in line 108. Take a look at his translation here.

Check out this brief YouTube lesson on John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, and the Restoration Period of English history.

Ever wonder what John Dryden might have looked like reading his own poetry? Well, wonder no further. We do admit, this one does kind of gives us the willies.

This reading features some stand-in photos for poor Shaddy.

This is the audio version of the great Dryden-Shadwell smackdown. You get to hear them go back and forth at each other through their poetry. The closer, "Mac Flecknoe," tells you who's left standing.

Nice locks, JD.

Seriously, would you want to be on the receiving end of this guy's bad mood?

This article explores Dryden's conservative appeal.

Get all of Dryden's work in one handy, compact package: this book.

Here's Dryden's take on The Aeneid.