144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Milton, drama, and Greek texts: preface 2. Circean transformation and the poetics of Milton’s Masque 3. John Milton and the Beard-Hater: encounters with Julian the Apostate 4. Paul’s Euripides, Greek tragedy and Hebrew antiquity in Paradise Regain’d 5. Milton’s Euripides and the superior rationality of the heathen 6. The politics of Greek tragedy in Samson Agonistes
Biography
Tania Demetriou is a Lecturer in English at the University of York, UK
Tanya Pollard is Professor of English at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA.
