John Milton was not only the greatest English Renaissance poet but
also devoted twenty years to prose writing in the advancement of
religious, civil and political liberties. The height of his public
career was as chief propagandist to the Commonwealth regime which
came into being following the execution of King Charles I in 1649.
The first of the two complete texts in this volume, The Tenure of
Kings and the Magistrates, was easily the most radical
justification of the regicide at the time. In the second, A Defence
of the People of England, Milton undertook to vindicate the
Commonwealth's cause to Europe as a whole. They are central to an
understanding both of the development of Milton's political thought
and the climax of the English Revolution itself. This is the first
time that fully annotated versions have been published together in
one volume, and incorporates a wholly new translation of the
Defence. The introduction outlines the complexity of the
ideological landscape which Milton had to negotiate, and in
particular the points at which he departed radically from his
sixteenth-century predecessors. Further aids to students include a
full chronology of Milton's life and events, a select bibliography
and biographies of persons mentioned in the text.
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