The Case for Comus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4369933 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Orgel (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-45 |
| Publication date | 2003-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2003.81.1.31 |
| OpenAlex | W1981626699 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
MOST DISCUSSIONS OF Comus focus on its political or religious implications, and its status as a precursor to John Milton's ethical and revolutionary thinking in his prose pamphlets and major poems. I am concerned here, on the contrary, with its implications specifically as a private work, a family affair; these are what seem to me most significantly Miltonic. I focus on three questions: Why is Milton's ethical masque about three lost children trying to get home? What is wrong with Comus-why is he a villain? How happy is the ending
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |