The Historical Background of Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel
The historical setting of Absalom and Achitophel was the arrest of the Earl of Shaftesbury in 1681 on a charge of high treason for.conspiring the death of the King and the subversion of the government. Charles II had no Legitimate children so that the heir the the throne was a Roman Catholic, James,... Sign in to see full entry.