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Article: Timothy J. Burbery, Milton the Dramatist.(Book review)
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- Seventeenth-Century News
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- March 22, 2008
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Timothy J. Burbery, Milton the Dramatist. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2007. 206 pp. $58.00. Review by ANNA K. NARDO, LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY.
Timothy J. Burbery's Milton the Dramatist contests what he cites as "something of a truism"--that "Milton was not a dramatist and his poems are not dramatic" (x). Focusing on Arcades, Comus, the Trinity manuscript plans, and Samson Agonistes, Burbery's project complements the many studies of the dramatic qualities of Milton's major epic (e.g. John Demaray, Milton's Theatrical Epic: The Invention and Design of Paradise Lost and Barbara Lewalski, Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms) as well as his ...
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