[PDF] Milton The Dramatist eBook

Author : Timothy J. Burbery
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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This book-length study of Milton as a dramatist fills a longstanding gap in Milton scholarship. Combining author-contextual criticism, historicized reader-response theory, and new historicism, Timothy Burbery begins by answering common objections to the claim that the poet is a dramatist, including the putatively static natures of Comus and Samson Agonistes, Milton's egoism, and his Puritanism. Further, Burbery asserts, recent biographical evidence of Milton's consumption of drama, such as his father's trusteeship of the Blackfriars Theater, suggests that the future poet viewed commercial plays and thus probably alludes to these experiences in his early poetry. Exposure to the public theater may also have influenced major episodes of his own dramas, including the debate between the Lady and Comus, and Dalila's stunning entrance in Samson. The study then examines Milton as a practitioner of drama by analyzing Arcades and the Ludlow masque. Having mastered the conventions of masque in the former work, Milton stretched himself in Comus by composing a work that was far more playlike than any court masque. It is possible that his success with these dramas encouraged Milton to regard himself as a budding dramatist in the 1630s, for late in that decade he began sketching out ideas for tragedies on biblical subjects including the Fall, Sodom, and Abraham and Isaac. This material, found in the Trinity Manuscript, shows him working through practical problems of staging and presentation, and sets the foundation for Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes. While Samson was never intended for the stage, it nonetheless embeds numerous stage directions in its dialogue, including information about the characters' appearances, gestures, and blocking. Awareness of these cues sheds light on some of the current critical debates, including the terrorist reading of the tragedy and Dalila's role. Burbery surveys the surprisingly extensive stage history of Samson, a history that tends to confirm its theatrical viability. Milton the Dramatist emphasizes Milton's dramatic achievements and thus restores a more equitable balance to our appreciation of his total literary achievement.

Author : Николай Васильевич Гоголь
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780810111592

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These translations of Gogol's plays restore the vitality of Gogol's language and humour, finally allowing his dramatic art to speak directly to Western readers, directors, actors and theatre-goers.

Author : Irene Montori
Publisher : Edizioni Studium S.r.l.
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8838250219

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Milton, the Sublime and Dramas of Choice challenges readers and scholars to rethink Milton’s relationship to the sublime in terms of ethics. The book demonstrates that Milton’s sublimity merges the early modern reception of Longinus with classical, medieval, and Renaissance categories of magnanimity, wonder, and inspiration to investigate the relations between human and divine agency. Under the influence of early modern models of sublimity, including Spenser and Shakespeare, Milton speaks through his fictional characters about the making of heroic and literary virtue. In turn, the work also sheds light on the importance of tragedy as an additional source to the formation of the Renaissance sublime. Milton’s tragic plots illustrate how the character’s virtue is tested, strengthened, and eventually transformed into an experience of elevation. The study explores the heroic path from dramatic choice to self-realisation, offering extensive treatments of Milton’s dramas – A Maske and Samson Agonistes. The redefinition of the pairing “Milton and the sublime” in this work aims to relocate the poet within the English literary history as the climax of earlier traditions and receptions of the sublime, but also as the starting point of modern sublimity

Author : Nicholas McDowell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691241732

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A groundbreaking biography of Milton’s formative years that provides a new account of the poet’s political radicalization John Milton (1608–1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. Tracing Milton’s literary, intellectual, and political development with unprecedented depth and understanding, Poet of Revolution is an unmatched biographical account of the formation of the mind that would go on to create Paradise Lost—but would first justify the killing of a king. Biographers of Milton have always struggled to explain how the young poet became a notorious defender of regicide and other radical ideas such as freedom of the press, religious toleration, and republicanism. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography of Milton’s formative years, Nicholas McDowell draws on recent archival discoveries to reconcile at last the poet and polemicist. He charts Milton’s development from his earliest days as a London schoolboy, through his university life and travels in Italy, to his emergence as a public writer during the English Civil War. At the same time, McDowell presents fresh, richly contextual readings of Milton’s best-known works from this period, including the “Nativity Ode,” “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso,” Comus, and “Lycidas.” Challenging biographers who claim that Milton was always a secret radical, Poet of Revolution shows how the events that provoked civil war in England combined with Milton’s astonishing programme of self-education to instil the beliefs that would shape not only his political prose but also his later epic masterpiece.

Author : Elmer Edgar Stoll
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816604401

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Poets and Playwrights was first published in 1967. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Poets and Playwrights is a collection of nine essays by the eminent Shakespearean scholar and critic, the late Elmer Edgar Stoll. In this work, which was first published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1930, Professor Stoll presents his maturest consideration of the art of the poets and playwrights of his subtitleShakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, and Milton. The most extensive essay, "Shakespeare and the Moderns," includes, in Mr. Stoll's words, "a review of Shakespeare as I conceive him, in order the better to compare him with those who in some respect or other are his peers."

Author : Brendan Prawdzik
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474421024

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Theatrical Milton brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, 'theatricality' identifies a discursive field entailing the rhetorical strategies and effects of framing a given human action, including speech and writing, as an act of theatre. Political and theological cultures in seventeenth-century England developed a treasury of representational resources in order to stage-to satirize and, above all, to de-legitimate-rhetors of politics, religion, and print. At the core of Milton's works is a contradictory relation to theatre that has neither been explained nor properly explored. This book changes the terms of scholarly discussion and discovers how the social structures of theatre afforded Milton resources for poetic and polemical representation and uncovers the precise contours of Milton's interest in theatre and drama.

Author : William Riley Parker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : 9780198128892

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Parker's life of Milton has long been accepted as one of the great literary biographies of the twentieth century, a unique accomplishment of scholarship based on a vast range of documentary evidence. Originally published in 1968, the biography was immediately acclaimed as `indispensable',`authoritative', as well as `controversial', and Parker himself was described in The Review of English Studies as `a living library and a walking museum'. Gordon Campbell's new and revised edition of Volume 1 forms a complete, self-contained, and wholly accessible account of Milton's life whichremains essential reading for the student of seventeenth-century literature, and for anyone who share Parker's enthusiasm for Milton's poetry.

Author : Sunil Kumar Sarker
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 23,45 MB
Release : 1999
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ISBN : 9788171567942

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There Is No Poet In English Literature Like Milton : So Firm In Religious Conviction, So Fierce In Politics, So High In Poetic Flight, So Grand In Style, So Great In Scholarship, So Beautiful In Appearance, So Overbearing In Attitude, So Stoical In Sufferance And All These Are At The Same Time. And All These Varied Facets Of Milton Have Variously Coloured The English Literature. Milton Is The Third Milestone In The History Of English Literature, The First And The Second Being Chaucer And Shakespeare, Respectively. Therefore, One'S Study Of English Literature Will, Certainly, Remain Incomplete So Long As One Is Not Acquainted With Milton'S Works.The Present Book May Be Treated As An Introduction To Milton. In It, All The Three Phases Of Milton'S Creative Life Have Been Highlighted : The Phase Of Early Or Minor Poems, The Phase Of Pamphleteering And The Phase Of The Epics And The Lone Drama. Special Treatments Have Been Accorded To The Poet'S Major Works : Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained And Samson Agonistes. And, Throughout The Book, Critical And Appreciative Attitudes Are Pervading.