For 10 points, name this Restoration playwright who attacked a rival as the "monarch of dullness" in Mac Flecknoe.
This man responded to Richard Simon's Biblical criticism in his anti-deist work Religio Laici, and his play about Torrismond finding out that he is the son of Sancho, not Raymond, is called The Spanish Friar. Despite earlier declaring his love for Doralice, Palamede marries Melantha in one of this man's plays. Ventidius thwarts the schemes of Alexas in this man's play about (*) Antony and Cleopatra, All for Love, while he satirized the Duke of Monmouth and Earl of Shaftesbury as the title characters of his roman a clef Absalom and Achitophel. For 10 points, name this Restoration playwright who attacked a rival as the "monarch of dullness" in Mac Flecknoe.
This man responded to Richard Simon's Biblical criticism in his anti-deist work Religio Laici, and his play about Torrismond finding out that he is the son of Sancho, not Raymond, is called The Spanish Friar.
John {Dryden}