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How successful were the plays of Elkanah Settle?

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Settle wrote a number of other plays, mainly tragedies, now forgotten but successful enough in their day to enrage Dryden, who considered his own popularity at Court endangered by that of Settle and satirized him as Doeg in Absalom and Achitophel.

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