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Page 49
... present " scenes unfolding in Hell and its environs in Books I and II and then in Heaven in Book III , scenes in these different realms that nevertheless direct interest upon the present activities of the First Par- ents in Eden . The ...
... present " scenes unfolding in Hell and its environs in Books I and II and then in Heaven in Book III , scenes in these different realms that nevertheless direct interest upon the present activities of the First Par- ents in Eden . The ...
Page 54
... presents his epic of the human race through a narrator who sings of the revolt of the angels , the Creation , the Fall , God's ... present the divine Argument of godhood . Satan declaims and plays out the demonic view . Adam and Eve give ...
... presents his epic of the human race through a narrator who sings of the revolt of the angels , the Creation , the Fall , God's ... present the divine Argument of godhood . Satan declaims and plays out the demonic view . Adam and Eve give ...
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... present God poetically in divine masque- like rituals as a figure mysteriously hidden yet spiritually revealed . In 1630 the poet had exclaimed in The Passion , " O what a Mask was there , what a disguise ! " and had attempted to depict ...
... present God poetically in divine masque- like rituals as a figure mysteriously hidden yet spiritually revealed . In 1630 the poet had exclaimed in The Passion , " O what a Mask was there , what a disguise ! " and had attempted to depict ...
Contents
THE INWARD VISION I | 1 |
INCONSTANT THEATRICAL DESIGNS | 16 |
THE VAST DESIGN EMERGES | 40 |
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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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