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Interpreting SAMSON AGONISTES
(Paperback)
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Interpreting SAMSON AGONISTES
Contributors:
By (Author) Joseph Anthony Wittreich
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Dewey:
822.4
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
430
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
595g
Description
Joseph Wittreich reveals Samson to be an intensely political work that reflects the heroic ambitions and failings of the Puritan Revolution and the tragic ambiguities of the era. He sees in the work not the purveyance of Medieval and early Renaissance typological associations but an interrogation of them and a consequent movement away from them. O
