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This chapter considers recent performances of Book IX of Paradise Lost, preceded by a play in Middle English from the York Mystery Cycle also telling the Fall of Adam and Eve, and A Maske Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle. Considering the first two together emphasizes anew the intensity with which Milton dramatizes the quarrel and the Fall sequence. The production served as a brilliant reminder of how theatrical is the scene, and how it echoes, or anticipates, the other major dramas among Milton’s works such as A Maske. Seeing the scene from the epic in relation to the medieval play made it obvious how Milton’s imagination worked in dramatic terms, and indeed reminds us that Milton had originally set out to write a tragedy of the story. The chapter focuses on the extremely odd choice that Milton made to retell the myth of Adam and Eve as a love story.

Author

Forsyth, Neil (author)

Publisher

Oxford University PressOxford

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198821892