![]() In this brand new dramatisation, Milton himself ( Sir Ian McKellen) is the blind narrator grieving the loss of his wife, played by Frances Barber.Īlso starring Simon Russell Beale as Satan, and adapted by award-winning poet and broadcaster Michael Symmons Roberts, this enthralling drama is a vital piece of storytelling with striking parallels to contemporary events. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout. The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. ![]() By reaching back to the beginning of time, Milton hoped to discover the events that had led to the political and societal upheaval of his own era – as well as using allegory to ask powerful questions about authority, government, tyranny and disobedience. Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (16081674). Written to ‘justify the ways of God to men’, it aimed to show what caused Mankind's fall and the consequences for the world, both bad and good. ![]() Straddling three worlds – Heaven, Hell and Earth – it tells the gripping story of fallen angel Satan’s rebellion against God, his temptation of Adam and Eve and their subsequent expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton’s biblical masterpiece, first published in 1667, is one of English literature’s most seminal works. I urge you to give it a listen" The Telegraph ![]() Sir Ian McKellen stars as Milton in this dramatised retelling of John Milton’s epic poem about the fall of Man ![]()
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