Making Milton: Print, Authorship, Afterlives

This book takes as its focus John Milton, one of the most widely-taught and read authors of the early modern period. Individual essays explore Milton’s writings, the ways in which they circulated during his lifetime and after his death–be it in manuscripts, printed pamphlets, or prestigious tomes–and the varied ways in which later writers and theatre practitioners have re-appropriated his poems, plays, and tracts over the last four hundred years. Chapters examine themes such as canonicity, authorship studies, adaptations, book history, religious conflict, politics, gender, and performance. The volume will appeal to Miltonists and advanced students and scholars of early modern literature, book history, religion and politics, and the history of reading and reception.