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The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume VI - Vernacular Regicide and Republican Writings (Hardcover, New)
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The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume VI - Vernacular Regicide and Republican Writings (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Complete Works of John Milton
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This is the fourth volume to be published in Oxford's 11-volume
edition of the Complete Works of John Milton, the first complete
scholarly edition for nearly 100 years. It brings together (for the
first time in a single volume) Milton's English writing in prose on
the political issues that exercised him throughout his life - civil
and religious liberty, republicanism and the constitution of a free
commonwealth, the rights and duties of citizens, resistance of
tyranny and the role of military force in securing national
stability. The eleven pieces here presented in chronological order,
from The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649) to Milton's last
prose work, his translation of the proclamation announcing the
election of John Sobieski as King of Poland (1674), articulate his
responses to the unprecedented events of the seventeenth century -
civil war, regicide, the Commonwealth, Cromwellian rule, the
Restoration of monarchy and the restored Stuart regime -- events
which shaped the social, political and religious structures of
modern Britain. They do so with unrivalled polemical and rhetorical
skill, instinct with revolutionary fervour and political idealism.
Each title is freshly edited from newly examined and collated
copies of either the first and subsequent seventeenth-century
editions or of the manuscript record to give the most accurate and
authoritative texts. A headnote to each analyses and discusses
(often with new evidence) its composition, production and
reception. A very substantial general introduction sets the
writings in the context of European intellectual history and of
contemporary British controversy and polemic. References and
allusions to events and to texts are elucidated by full and
detailed annotation and commentary which takes full account of
recent Milton scholarship but also often draws on original
research. Taken together, these features constitute the definitive
edition of these texts for the 21st century.
Both editors are established seventeenth-century scholars with
expertise particularly in the political and religious literature of
the Civil War, Interregnum and Restoration periods.
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