Joseph Wittreich reveals Samson to be an intensely political work that reflects the heroic ambitions and failings of the Puritan Revolution and the tragic ambiguities of the era. He sees in the work not the purveyance of Medieval and early Renaissance typological associations but an interrogation of them and a consequent movement away from them.
Originally published in 1986.
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Interpreting SAMSON AGONISTES
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Publisher
Princeton University PressYear
2014Print ISBN
9780691611099
9780691066714
eBook ISBN
9781400854172
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Citations
- I Samson Agonistes and the State of Milton Criticism
- II Samson Agonistes and the Samson Story in Judges
- III The Judges Narrative and the Art of Samson Agonistes
- IV The Renaissance Samsons and Samson Typologies
- V Samson Among the Nightingales
- VI Milton's Samsons and Samson Agonistes
- VII Samson Agonistes in Context
- Index
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