Sanctifying Rites in Milton's A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634. (March 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Sanctifying Rites in Milton's A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634. (March 2019)
- Main Title:
- Sanctifying Rites in Milton's A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634
- Authors:
- Timmis, Patrick
- Abstract:
- This article seeks to challenge Stanley Fish's picture of the heroine of Milton's Comus as a complete and immaculate soul, and thus a static one with no need to grow. In conversation with Book II of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, I argue that Milton presents the Christian virtues as developed through the ritual enactment of prevenient grace. Thus, the pattern for the Lady's growth into sanctified maturity is a ceremonial or even liturgical movement intended to lead masquers and audience heavenward.
- Is Part Of:
- Christianity and literature. Volume 68:Number 2(2019)
- Journal:
- Christianity and literature
- Issue:
- Volume 68:Number 2(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 68, Issue 2 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 68
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0068-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 193
- Page End:
- 212
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03
- Subjects:
- Milton -- Comus -- ritual -- Spenser -- masque
Christianity and literature -- Periodicals
Literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
809.933823 - Journal URLs:
- https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/christianity-literature ↗
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/751 ↗
http://cal.sagepub.com/content/by/year ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com ↗
http://www.search.atlaonline.com/pls/eli/eli_bd.volsuper?TXT=n0148-3331 ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0148333118790583 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0148-3331
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- Legaldeposit
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