The world of "Samson Agonistes"; uncertainty and the text; the dramatic work and its reading; Samson - God's champion, a type, or individual?; Dalila - seductress or wife?; politics in the destabilized text; biographical intrusions; the uncertainties of irony; a hermeneutics of the text; "Samson Agonistes" and consistencies of belief.
John T Shawcross is Professor of English, Emeritus, University of Kentucky.
One of the few scholars qualified to write magisterially about any
aspect of Milton's life and work succinctly interprets anew his
dramatic poem modestly and convincingly.
*CHOICE*
Enormously helpful [in] guiding readers through the complexities of
both Milton's text and its accumulated criticism.... A remarkably
helpful book, both for its balanced and incisive analysis of Samson
itself and for its skilful discussion of important criticism.
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