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... Hell ( 519-520 ) . Inside the palace , Satan , a transmuted counterpart to Comus , reigns " high on a Throne of Royal State " ( 1 ) . Like Comus , who debates with the Lady using " false rules prankt in reason's garb " ( Comus , 759 ) ...
... Hell ( 519-520 ) . Inside the palace , Satan , a transmuted counterpart to Comus , reigns " high on a Throne of Royal State " ( 1 ) . Like Comus , who debates with the Lady using " false rules prankt in reason's garb " ( Comus , 759 ) ...
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... Hell IKE the infernal flames twisting in darkness visible , Milton's Hell glitters with unholy paradoxes . It is a realm of grand illusion . Because evil lurks as the dislocating reality beneath inflated public disguises , appearances in ...
... Hell IKE the infernal flames twisting in darkness visible , Milton's Hell glitters with unholy paradoxes . It is a realm of grand illusion . Because evil lurks as the dislocating reality beneath inflated public disguises , appearances in ...
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... Hell , actions and orations express dispro- portion within . All the beings of Hell are riven with contradictions . Hell contains , for example , " many a Region dolorous " ( II.619 ) in which , the epic narrator records , ... Nature ...
... Hell , actions and orations express dispro- portion within . All the beings of Hell are riven with contradictions . Hell contains , for example , " many a Region dolorous " ( II.619 ) in which , the epic narrator records , ... Nature ...
Contents
THE INWARD VISION I | 1 |
INCONSTANT THEATRICAL DESIGNS | 16 |
THE VAST DESIGN EMERGES | 40 |
Copyright | |
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Milton's Theatrical Epic: The Invention and Design of Paradise Lost John G. Demaray No preview available - 1999 |
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