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<p>In <i>Paradise Lost</i>, Adam asks, "Why do I overlive?" Adam's anguished question is the basis for a critical analysis of living too long as a neglected but central theme in Western tragic literature. Emily Wilson examines this experience in works by Milton and by four of his literary predecessors: Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca, and Shakespeare. Each of these writers composed works in which the central character undergoes unbearable suffering or loss, hopes for death, but goes on living.</p> <p><i>Mocked with Death</i> makes clear that tragic works need not find their moral and aesthetic conclusion in death and that, in some instances, tragedy consists of living on rather than dying. Oedipus's survival at the end of <i>Oedipus Tyrannus</i> and <i>Oedipus Coloneus</i> is clearly one such instance; another Euripides' <i>Heracles</i>. In Seneca's <i>Hercules Furens</i>, overliving becomes an expression of anxieties about both political and literary belatedness. In <i>King Lear</i> and <i>Macbeth</i>, the sense of overliving produces a divided sense of self. For Milton, in both <i>Samson Agonistes</i> and <i>Paradise Lost</i>, overliving is a theological problem arising from the ten

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Author

Emily R. Wilson

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801879647

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities