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"The image of Satan in Rumi's ""Mathnawi"", Dante's ""Divine Comedy"" and Milton's ""Paradise Lost"""
… Rumi (1207-1273), Dante (1265-1321) and Milton (1608-1674). The common ground for comparison is their response to the question of dualism between good and evil. The multifaceted figure of Satan in these works makes him an interesting subject for study. In the Divine Comedy, Satan is a flat …
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"By one man's firm obedience fully tried" : Christ the man and messianic misconception in Paradise Regained.
My study of Paradise Regained began with a detailed consideration of the puzzling banquet scene Milton places between the first and second biblical temptations. I soon determined, however, that the banquet is not a temptation concerned with food as an end but as a means. I believe that Milton …
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Comus and the seventeenth century masque.
About the masque of Comus there has long been controversy of one kind and another. Scholars are apparently unable to make up their minds that it is a masque at all. Soergel, a leading authority on the subject of masques, boldly states that "Comus ist eine Moralitat mit Masquerade, aber keine …
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Lucretius's moral philosophy as it appears in the formal similarities between Milton and Lucretius.
John Milton's Paradise Lost engages the argument advanced by the Roman poet Titus Lucretius Carus in his De Rerum Natura, a poetic apology for Epicureanism. Milton's Protestant views set him at odds with Lucretius's central claims: that the soul is annihilated at death and that fear of higher …
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Framing Eve in "Paradise Lost"
Although John Milton's Paradise Lost presses readers towards fashioning Eve as a temptress, the text simultaneously invites an interpretation Eve as a composition of active goodness. Readers, however, tend to accept inherited cultural stereotypes and ideological constructs of Eve as a temptress …
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Milton's Emerging View of Fame and the Heroic Life
By the writing of Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, Milton clearly defines fame in Christian terms. His method is generally parodic; he throws into relief true fame by parodying its false varieties. Thus he makes a clear distinction between earthly fame and heavenly fame. …
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An Account of the Production of Milton's Comus at Southwest Texas Teachers College
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Producing early modern space and the mind in public and closet drama
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Erasmian humanism and the utopias of Thomas More and John Milton
The thesis examines the influence of Erasmus’s Christian Humanism on the political thought of John Milton and Thomas More, and argues that Milton’s politics was utopian like More’s. In true Erasmian spirit, their utopias blend classical ethics and Christian beliefs and emphasize education and …
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The Path to Personal Salvation: The Hermetic Trope of Self-Mastery in Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton
My dissertation examines Renaissance authors investment in the Hermetic tradition. This tradition is based on the Hellenistic Egyptian philosophical-theological writings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, which emerged in parallel with early Christianity, Neoplatonism, and Gnosticism. The Hermetic …