Settle, Elkanah (1648–1724)

English poet and dramatist. The success of his play The Empress of Morocco 1673 annoyed the poet laureate John Dryden, who satirized Settle as ‘Doeg’ in the second part of Absalom and Achitophel 1682. Settle retorted the same year with the pamphlet Absalom Senior, or Achitophel Transpros'd.

He also wrote the play Cambyses 1667 and Reflections on Several of Mr Dryden's Plays 1687.