This authoritative text of the first edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost transcribes the original 10-book poem, records its textual problems and numerous differences from the second edition, and discusses in critical commentary the ...
The completed texts of two of the greatest epic poems in English literature are combined in one volume where each provides a profound exploration of the moral problems of God's justice.
"Offers new readings of Milton's major works, including Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, highlighting how Milton shifts the parlance of freedom and liberty from the arena of civic order to that of the ...
Vol. 1: "This authoritative text of the first edition of John Milton's Paradise lost transcribes the original 10-book poem, records its textual problems and numerous differences from the second edition, and discusses in critical commentary ...
"Original readings of Dr. Faustus, The Merchant of Venice, Edward II, King Lear, Titus Andronicus, and The Tempest, in which Sean Lawrence challenges the tendency to reflexively understand gifts as exchanges or negotiations.
"The history of Milton on film, and Paradise Lost in particular, has been full of ambitious visions and dazzling failures, and this book explores all, from the earliest proto-cinematic inventions to the contemporary age of sprawling digital ...
Rooted in the interpretive field of ecocriticism, this collection asks what we can learn from representations of soil in early modern literature
Each of the primary texts in the collection offers a glimpse into a particular subgenre of plague writing, beginning with Thomas Moulton’s plague remedy and prayers published by the Church of England and devoted to the issue of the plague ...
These diffuse books, which scholars have been unable to place into any critical paradigm, are actually sermonic in structure and content.
This engaging book demonstrates Shakespeare's abiding interest in the theatrical potential of the Christian resurrection from the dead.