Interpreting SAMSON AGONISTES /

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Joseph Wittreich reveals Samson to be an intensely political work that reflects the heroic ambitions and failings of the Puritan Revolution and the tragic ambiguities of the era. He sees in the work not the purveyance of Medieval and early Renaissance typological associations but an interrogation of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1986]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Samson > (Biblical judge)
Milton, John, > 1608-1674. > Samson Agonistes.
Samson > (Biblical judge) > In literature.
Samson Agonistes (Milton, John)
Literature.
DRAMA > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Samson agonistes and the state of Milton
  • Samson agonistes and the Samson story in Judges
  • The Judges narrative and the art of Samson agonistes
  • The Renaissance Samsons and Samson typologies
  • Samson among the nightingales
  • Milton's Samsons and Samson agonistes
  • Samson agonistes in context.

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