Subsequently, the English Queen Elizabeth's favorable rule set unreasonable standards for future monarchs. ... The standards set by Elizabeth's interaction with parliament contrasted strongly with James I's less-than-civil policy, once stating when told the people wanted to see him, "God's wounds, I will pull down my breeches and they shall also see my arse." ... Parliament recognized the necessity for a figurehead in England's government, and invited Charles II to become the next monarch (McK, 553). ... However, Charles started great controversy when he appointed Jame...

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The issue it deals is the problem of succession for the king Charles II in 1680. At that time, some people were afraid of Charles II's brother -James II- because of Catholic influence-as the king's party supported the Catholic position-. ... Dryden uses biblical figures to refer to Charles II-David-, Absalom-Monmouth- and Shaftesbury-Achitopel- and describes a view associated with symmetry as in Milton's "Paradise Lost-. ... He was a political poet -Anglican at this time- and he was also made Poet Laureate and Historiographer since 1670, but he also had an official position, h...

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