Whom did John Dryden refer to as “Mac Flecknoe” in his 1682 poem of the same name?

Thomas Shadwell was refer to as “Mac Flecknoe”, a playwright whose work John Dryden despised.

Dryden satirized Shadwell as the son of (“Mac”) Richard Flecknoe, another bad contemporary poet.

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