Milton Drama And Greek Texts

Author : Tania Demetriou,Tanya Pollard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351341318

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Milton, Drama, and Greek Texts by Tania Demetriou,Tanya Pollard Pdf

This collection reconsiders Milton’s engagement with Greek texts, with particular attention to the theological and theatrical meanings attached to Greek in the early modern period. Responding to new scholarship on early modern reactions to Greek authors – especially Euripides and Homer, Milton’s particular favourites – the collection emphasizes the associations of Greek with both Protestantism and the origins of tragedy, two arenas frequently in tension, but crucially linked in Milton’s literary imagination. The contributions explore a range of works spanning the whole of Milton’s career, from the early masque Comus, through the political and religious prose, to the 1671 closet drama, Samson Agonistes. They consider the ways in which the authority and controversy attached to Greek authors framed Milton’s approaches to their texts. Looking at both the texts and their interpretative traditions together, this book suggests that Greek authors shaped Milton’s attitudes to drama in ways even more extensive and surprising than we have yet recognized. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Seventeenth Century.

Author : William Riley Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004527714

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Milton's Debt to Greek Tragedy in Samson Agonistes by William Riley Parker Pdf

Author : Tanya Pollard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780198793113

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Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages by Tanya Pollard Pdf

"The book argues that rediscovered ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on sixteenth-century England's dramatic landscape, not only in academic and aristocratic settings, but also at the heart of the developing commercial theaters."--Introduction, p. 2.

Author : John Creaser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192679291

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Milton and the Resources of the Line by John Creaser Pdf

This book will change how readers read not only Milton but any poetry. Whereas prose is written in sentences, poetry is written in lines, lines that may or may not coincide with the syntax of the sentence. Lines add an aural and visual mode of punctuation, with some degree of pause and weight at the line-turn. So lineation, the division of poetry into lines, opens a repertoire of possibilities to the poet. Notably, it encourages an enhanced concentration on meaning, rhythm, and sound. It makes metrical patterns possible, with interactions between regularity and deviation; or it makes possible the presence or absence of structural rhyme; or the multiple variations of the line-turn, whether in harmony with syntax or overflowing, in ways that may be either more or less conspicuous. Starting from theories of Derek Attridge, this book develops new methods for exploring the expressive resources of the verse line as exploited by the greatest of English poets, John Milton. Topics examined include: the interaction of strictness and freedom in the rhythms of Milton's line and paragraph; the interfusion of diverse prosodies in a single poem; approaches to free verse; rhyme in the earlier lyric verse and modes of near-rhyme in the later blank verse; the diverse modes of onomatopoeia; and the complex interweavings of prosody and ideology in this very political poet. The great themes and issues and characters of Milton's innovative and always controversial poetry are perceived afresh, being approached intimately through the rich possibilities of the line, and the insights of the approach illuminate the reading of any poetry.

Author : John Milton
Publisher : Signet Classics
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Fiction
ISBN : BL:A0018079545

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Samson Agonistes by John Milton Pdf

Author : Emma Depledge,John S. Garrison,Marissa Nicosia
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198821892

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Making Milton by Emma Depledge,John S. Garrison,Marissa Nicosia Pdf

A collection of essays exploring John Milton's rise to popularity and his status as a canonical author. The volume considers Milton's 'authorial persona' in the context of his relationships with his contemporary writers, stationers, and readers.

Author : Alison Knight
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192650139

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The Dark Bible by Alison Knight Pdf

The Dark Bible explores early modern England's interactions with difficult aspects of the Bible. For the early modern reader, although the Bible was understood to be perfect, sufficient, and transcendent (indeed, the Protestant Reformation required it), it was not always experienced as such. While traditional interpretive precepts, such as the claim that all dark passages could be read in the light of clear ones, were frequently recited by early modern commentators, their actual encounters with the darkness of the Bible suggest that writers, commentators, and translators were often deeply uncomfortable with the disjunction between what the Bible should be, and what it actually was. The Dark Bible investigates writers' and translators' attempts to explain, accommodate, circumvent, and repair problematic texts across a range of genres and contexts. It charts early modern English use of biblical scholarship in vernacular culture and investigates how vernacular writing in various genres could give voice to questioning and confused biblical interactions. The Dark Bible demonstrates that early modern writers and critics engaged extensively with the Bible's difficulties, attempting to circumvent and repair problematic texts, and otherwise reconcile the darkness of the Bible with theories of the Bible's perfection and clarity.

Author : Lorna Hardwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0198528655

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Reception Studies by Lorna Hardwick Pdf

The texts, images and events of the ancient world have been used both as sources of authority and exploitation in politics, culture and society and as icons of resistance and contest. How classical culture is transplanted into new contexts, how texts are translated and performed and how Greek and Roman values are perceived and used continues to be a force in current debates. The main concepts and explanatory frameworks used in the field are introduced through chapters on reception within antiquity and case studies of more recent receptions from Africa, the Caribbean, Europe and the USA. The book will be of use to all those interested in the relationship between the arts, culture and society as well as to students and teachers of classical subjects and of literature, drama, film and comparative cultural studies.

Author : Laura Lunger Knoppers
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191559068

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The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume II by Laura Lunger Knoppers Pdf

Bringing together literary criticism, historical bibliography, and religious, political, and print history, this volume offers a definitive scholarly edition of John Milton's Paradise Regain'd and Samson Agonistes. The scrupulously-edited text is based on extensive collation of the 1671 and 1680 volumes. Drawing on new archival sources and up-to-date historiography, a detailed Introduction sets out the cultural, religious, and political contexts of 1670-71, including continuing opposition to the Restoration regime and the major contribution made to that opposition by publishers and print. While the meanings of the 1671 poems have been much discussed and debated, print and publishing history has been little addressed in teaching editions or scholarship. New archival materials on Milton's publisher, John Starkey, and his printer, John Macock, open up the radical print networks in which Milton's poems were produced, published, and circulated. The Textual Introduction and Headnote also provide a thorough discussion of the contributions of the printing house to the text. Reconstruction of the octavo sheets used in printing the text shows that multiple compositors worked on the text and thus helps to explain variant spelling and address longstanding issues of dating. A discussion of Milton's bold transformation of classical epic and tragedy provides literary historical context. This edition also breaks new ground by including materials on early owners and readers, who actively shaped the texts with corrections, annotations, and references to biblical and classical sources. As an aid for students and scholars alike, Textual Commentary provides precise OED word definitions, identifies biblical, classical, historical, and geographical references, and explains Latin, Greek, and Hebrew usages. This volume will be of interest to scholars of Milton, of Renaissance literature, of print and publishing history, of history of the book, and of early modern cultural, political, and religious history.

Author : William Poole
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674983205

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Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost by William Poole Pdf

“An authoritative, and accessible, introduction to Milton’s life and an engaging examination of the process of composing Paradise Lost” (Choice). In early 1642 Milton promised English readers a work of literature so great that “they should not willingly let it die.” Twenty-five years later, the epic poem Paradise Lost appeared in print. In the interim, however, the poet had gone totally blind and had also become a controversial public figure―a man who had argued for the abolition of bishops, freedom of the press, the right to divorce, and the prerogative of a nation to depose and put to death an unsatisfactory ruler. These views had rendered him an outcast. William Poole devotes particular attention to Milton’s personal life: his reading and education, his ambitions and anxieties, and the way he presented himself to the world. Although always a poet first, Milton was also a theologian and civil servant, vocations that informed the composition of his masterpiece. At the emotional center of this narrative is the astounding fact that Milton lost his sight in 1652. How did a blind man compose this intensely visual work? Poole opens up the world of Milton’s masterpiece to modern readers, first by exploring Milton’s life and intellectual preoccupations and then by explaining the poem itself―its structure, content, and meaning. “Poole’s book may well become what he shows Paradise Lost soon became: a classic.” —Times Literary Supplement “Smart and original . . . Demonstrates with astonishing exactitude how Milton’s life and―most impressively of all―his reading enabled this epic.” ―The Spectator “This deeply learned and lucidly written book . . . makes this most ambitious of early modern poets accessible to his modern readers.” ―Journal of British Studies

Author : John Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWPV94

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Milton's Lycidas by John Milton Pdf

Author : Charles W. Durham,Kristin Pruitt McColgan
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0945636652

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Spokesperson Milton by Charles W. Durham,Kristin Pruitt McColgan Pdf

"Although the scholars represented in this collection apply different theoretical approaches to their examinations of Milton's poetry and prose, they all challenge earlier critical assumptions and are evidence of the energizing dialogue that occurs when readers converse with each other and engage in dialogue with the many voices of a spokesperson such as John Milton."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Mark Pattison,John Milton
Publisher : Milton's Notable Works
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1091034516

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Samson Agonistes: : A Dramatic Poem / Milton by Mark Pattison by Mark Pattison,John Milton Pdf

About the Series "Milton's Notable Works"Volume 1. Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books (Illustrated) / Paradise Regained.Illustrations by Gustave Doré (49 plates)Included biographical notes about John Milton [From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin, 1910] and Gustave Doré.Volume 2. Samson Agonistes: A Dramatic Poem / Milton by Mark Pattison.Mark Pattison (10 October 1813 - 30 July 1884) was an English author and a Church of England priest. He served as Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.- -Samson Agonistes (from Greek Σαμσών ἀγωνιστής, "Samson the champion") is a tragic closet drama by John Milton. It appeared with the publication of Milton's Paradise Regain'd in 1671, as the title page of that volume states: "Paradise Regained / A Poem / In IV Books / To Which Is Added / Samson Agonistes." It is generally thought that Samson Agonistes was begun around the same time as Paradise Regained but was completed after the larger work, possibly very close to the date of publishing, but there is no agreement on this. Milton began plotting various subjects for tragedies in a notebook created in the 1640s. Many of the ideas dealt with the topic of Samson, and he gave them titles such as Samson pursophorus or Hybristes ("Samson the Firebrand, or Samson the Violent"), Samson marriing or in Ramath Lechi, and Dagonalia (the unholy rites at which Samson performed his vindication of God). The title he chose emphasises Samson as a warrior or an athlete, and the play was included with Paradise Regained and printed on 29 May 1671 by John Starkey. It is uncertain as to when the work was composed, which leaves the possibility that it was an early work that was filled with Milton's ideas about the English Civil War or it was a later work that incorporates his despair over the Restoration. Evidence for the early dating is based on his early works and his belief in revolution whereas evidence for a later dating connects the play with his later works, such as Paradise Lost, and comments reflecting on the fall of the Commonwealth. In 1671, the work was printed with a new title page and prefaced his work with a discussion on Greek Tragedy and Aristotle's Poetics.On the title page, Milton wrote that the piece was a "Dramatic Poem" instead of it being a drama. He did not wish for it to be performed on stage, but thought that the text could still influence people. He hoped that in combining Samson with traits of other Biblical figures, including those of Job or of the Psalmist, he could come up with the perfect hero who could deal with complex theological issues. In writing the poem and choosing the character of Samson as his hero, Milton was also illustrating his own blindness, which afflicted him in his later life.- Annotated by Mark Pattison.Mark Pattison (10 October 1813 - 30 July 1884) was an English author and a Church of England priest. He served as Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.Milton by Mark Pattison: FIRST PERIOD. 1608-1639.1.FAMILY-SCHOOL-COLLEGE. 2.RESIDENCE AT HORTON-L'ALLEGRO-IL PENSEROSO-ARCADES-COMUS-LYCIDAS.3.JOURNEY TO ITALY. SECOND PERIOD. 1640-1660.4.EDUCATIONAL THEORY-TEACHING. 5.MARRIAGE, AND PAMPHLETS ON DIVORCE 6.PAMPHLETS.7.BIOGRAPHICAL. 1640-1649.8.THE LATIN SECRETARYSHIP.9.MILTON AND SALMASIUS.-BLINDNESS. 10.MILTON AND MORUS-THE SECOND DEFENCE-THE DEFENCE FOR HIMSELF.11.LATIN SECRETARYSHIP COMES TO AN END-MILTON'S FRIENDS. THIRD PERIOD, 1660-1674.12.BIOGRAPHICAL.-LITERARY OCCUPATION.-RELIGIOUS OPINIONS. 13.PARADISE LOST-PARADISE REGAINED-SAMSON AGONISTES

Author : Elizabeth Sauer,Professor of English Elizabeth Sauer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802038845

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'Paper-contestations' and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675 by Elizabeth Sauer,Professor of English Elizabeth Sauer Pdf

'Paper-contestations' and Textual Communities in England challenges traditional readings of literary history and proposes a fresh approach to the politics of consensus and contestation that distinguishes current scholarly debates about this period.

Author : Milton Marx
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015062804839

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The Enjoyment of Drama by Milton Marx Pdf

The Purpose and Aim of Drama -- What is a Play -- Conflict: the Essence of Drama -- Structure of a Play -- Tragedy -- Comedy -- Serious Drama, Comedy Drama, and Other Tupes -- Literary Movements and Reality in Drama -- How to Judge a Play.