This book is a comprehensive account of Milton's two aristocratic
entertainments, Arcades and Comus in the context of their original
occasions and in the light of Milton's developing sense of vocation
as a poet in the earlier part of his career. The book is especially
original in the amount of socio-historical information it offers
about the relationship between the independent and pastorly poet
and his aristocratic patrons, and about the degree to which Milton
was prepared to work within the constraints and decorum of the
Caroline masque and country-house entertainment. A particular
feature of the book is the analysis of changes in the texts of the
two entertainments, from the earliest version in the Trinity
College manuscript through to the first printings, considering
Milton's changing manner of address to the different occasions of
performance and publication. A degree of tension is discovered
between the poet and the organisers of the Ludlow masque, and an
explanation is given for a kind of censorship in the Bridgewater
manuscript of Comus.
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