Flecknoe, Richard (died c. 1678)

English poet and dramatist. He published several volumes of epigrams and miscellaneous poems; for example, A Farrago of Several Pieces 1666, two plays, and A Short Treatise of the English Stage 1664. The poet John Dryden caricatured him in MacFlecknoe 1684, a satire on the dramatist Thomas Shadwell.

Flecknoe is said to have been a Jesuit priest, and travelled in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Brazil 1640–1650 before going to London.