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The Failed Jeremiad in Samson Agonistes
- SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 46, Number 1, Winter 2006
- pp. 179-194
- 10.1353/sel.2006.0004
- Article
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Abstract
Milton's play Samson Agonistes critiques the optimism that informs the relation between individual citizen and national community in Areopagitica. Both the play and the pamphlet invoke the rhetoric of the jeremiad, but Samson's interaction with the Chorus of Danites and his father Manoa indicates that the optimism present in Milton's use of the jeremiad in Areopagitica is no longer possible for him in the post-Restoration era.
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