Milton the Dramatist

Index

Act of Oblivion (1660), xii, 96 Adam and Eve, 76–77 L’Adamo (Battista), 80 Adams, Robert, 109 Adams, William, ix “Adam Unparadised” (Milton), 72, 74–77, 79, 83 Adamus Exul (Grotius), 30 The Aeneid (Virgil), 62–63 Aeschylus, xii, 29, 30, 35, 100, 167, 169, 181n3 Alcestis (Euripides), 171 The Alchemist (Jonson), 6, 19 Alexander, William, 100 L’Allegro (Milton): as autobiography, 18, 23–24; dramatic influences on, 30; performance of, 152; theater references in, xiii, 2, 3, 18–19, 32, 35, 36 Allen, D. C., 135, 138 All Souls’ College, Oxford, 157 Andreini, Giovanni Battista, 80, 189n12 Animadversions (Milton), 26 antimasque, 48–49 Antiquities of the Jews (Josephus), 127 An Apology Against a Pamphlet (Milton), 114 An Apology for Smectymnuus (Milton), 2, 25–27 Arcades (Milton): background to composition of, 40–41; and commercial theater, 163; dancing in, 43–44; dramatic aspects of, xiv, xv, 57, 165; as entertainment, 40–41, 44–45; influence of, on other Miltonic works, 25; as masque, xi, 41, 43–45; Milton as spectator of, 24–25, 27, 63–64; and Milton’s view of masques, 32, 39; Paradise Lost and, 61–65; performance of, 40–45, 184n2; Samson Agonistes and, 166; songs in, 46; staging of, 41–42; in Trinity manuscript, 67 Areopagitica (Milton), 28, 29, 76 Aristophanes, 29, 86 Aristotelian unities, 36, 71, 85, 184n52 Aristotle, 36, 69, 71–72, 83, 90, 98–100 Arthos, John, 27 Athalie (Racine), 171–74 Atkins, Samuel, 30 Atterbury, Francis, 152 Aubrey, John, 78, 80, 96 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 124 Baptistes sive Calumnia (Buchanan), xvi Barberini, Francesco, 27 Barrows, Samuel, 169 Bartenieff, George, 158 Bartholomew Fair (Jonson), 6 Beerbohm, Max, 138, 143, 155, 161, 162 The Beggar’s Opera (Gay), 154 Bennison, Ishia, 160, 162 Bentley, Gerald, 21, 24 Bentley, Richard, 31 Bérénice (Racine), 174 Berkeley, David, 109 Berry, Herbert, xiii, 3 Blackfriars Theatre: appearance of, 8–9; dismantling of, 34; Elegia Prima and, 4; Milton’s proximity to, 1, 5–6; The Muses’ Looking-Glass and, 19; play showing in 1626 at, 10–13; Puritans and, 6; reputation of, 5–6, 27; trusteeship of, xiii, xvii, 3, 5–6, 34–35 body, of Samson, 107–16 body-stockings, 76–77 Bridgewater, Earl of, and family, 45, 46 Bridgewater manuscript, 57–59, 186n20 Broadaeus, Johann, 30 INDEX 200 The Broken Heart (Ford), 14 Brown, Cedric, 40, 42, 44, 186n20 Brown, Eleanor, 113–14 Buchanan, George, xvi, 100 Burbage, Cuthbert, 4 Burbage, James, 4 Burbage, Richard, 4 Burbage, William, 35 Burden, Dennis, 62 Burns, Norman T., 122–23, 125 Bush, Douglas, 23, 24 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 101 Cambridge University, 3 Campbell, George, xvii, 2, 5, 6, 34 Campion, Thomas, 12 Canter, Wilhelm, 30 Carey, John, 128–29, 134 Caro, Anthony, 162 Cartwright, William, 11 Cary, Elizabeth, 100, 101–02, 105 Castlehaven, Earl of, 40, 184n2 Castlevetro, Lodovico, 36, 184n52 Catley, Anne, 154 Chappell, William, 3 Charles I, King of England, 32, 37, 45, 130 chastity, 54–56 Chi Soffre Speri (Rospigiliosi), 27 Christ’s College, Cambridge, 26 Christ’s Passion (mystery play), 28 Christ Suffering, 92 Chronicles (Holinshed), 36 Cibber, Colley, 153 Cibber, Mrs. (singer), 153–54 Clive, Katherine, 153 closet dramas, 97, 100–101, 162–63, 191n7 Cockpit Theatre, 5, 34 Coghill, Nevill, 97, 157 Cokain, Aston, 22 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, ix Commentary on the Revelation (Pareus), 190n20 Companion to the Playhouse (Erskine Baker), 152, 154 Comus (Milton), 45–61; asides in, 49; and commercial theater, xiii–xiv, 163; composition of, 39; Comus’s characterization in, 49–54; dancing in, 46–47; as drama, x–xi, xvii, Index 201 39–40, 45–46, 48–54, 56–61, 96, 165–66, 186n19; Greek influences on, 70; as masque, 45–48; Milton as spectator of, 27; and Milton’s view of masques, 32–33; The Muses’ Looking-Glass and, 20–22; revels in, 47; revisions of, 57–61; Samson Agonistes and, 166–68; Sodom sketches and, 84; songs in, 46; spectacle in, 47; staging of, 47–48, 152; Tempest compared to, 54–56; textual history of, 57–58; in Trinity manuscript, 67 Cook, Ann, 2 Cooper, C. B., 21 Cranleigh School, 158 The Creation of the World (puppet show), 28 The Creation of the World, with Noah’s Flood (mystery play), 28 Cromwell, Oliver, 117, 130 Daniel, Samuel, 12, 49, 100 Danielson, Dennis, 97 Davenant, William, 11 Dean, Winston, 154 Defensio Secunda (Milton), 113, 114 Demaray, John, 46 Derby at Harefield, Countess Dowager of, 40 Diodati, Charles, 3, 4, 6, 10...