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Friar Dominic, the title character of The Spanish Fryar (1681), is usually regarded as a 'crude caricature of Catholicism,' an advertisement for Dryden's Protestantism during the Popish Plot crisis of [...]

This article discusses the 1683 Rye House Plot to assassinate Charles II and his brother James, the Whig party's involvement with it and the public opinion against them afterwards. The author examines negative images of the Whigs as regicides and violent revolutionaries by looking at the works of George Bower, who printed a medal in 1683 portraying Whig leaders engaged in the assassination plot, John Dryden's satire of the metal in his work 'The Medall' and 'Absalom and Achitophel'; the illustrated work 'The King's Arms' by John Michael Wright and commissioned for Lord Castlemaine is also examined.

Drucilla Cornell borrows material from Hegel, Theodor Adorno, Jacques Lacan, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida to shape a tool for the deconstruction of the law. For she sees the American [...]

Casimir Britannicus English Translations, Paraphrases, and Emulations of the Poetry of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski Edited by Krzysztof Fordonski and Piotr Urbanski. Vol. 11 of Critical Texts edited by John Batchelor. [...]