Between Two Pillars: The Hero's Plight in Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained

Joseph G. Mayer

Between Two Pillars: The Hero's Plight in Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University Press of America
Country
United States
Published
20 December 2004
Pages
272
ISBN
9780761829720

Between Two Pillars: The Hero’s Plight in Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained

Joseph G. Mayer

John Milton’s Samson is a figure at once Godly and unGodly. Some recent criticism of Samson Agonistes, with its notion of shifting contexts, treats the play as a repository of conflicting traditions. Between Two Pillars, instead of denying the play’s aesthetic integrity, discerns in it a dialectical opposition between Samson’s irrevocable election by God and his subjection - instanced by his slavery - to a fallen, unGodly order.

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