Milton’s epic recounts a revolt against Heaven. Readers from Thomas Jefferson to Malcolm X have drawn their own lessons from ...

One thought rattled around my head all night while watching this radical take on Paradise Lost: how would God react to all of ...

Paradise Lost anticipated another innovation. The poem’s mountain-top Eden enables ... by the one where Adam and Eve sleep in Milton’s epic — and elsewhere describes the garden as a ...

leaving behind Paradise Lost, a poem composed in a state of deep despair. Blind, alone, and reeling from the failures of the English Revolution, Milton wrote an epic reflection on political defeat ...

Nearly 30 passages that Jefferson recorded, Orlando Reade notes, derive from John Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost,” including 11 that center on the figure of Satan. Jefferson’s interest ...

Read our review of Paradise Lost at Battersea Arts Centre. Lost Dog’s clever, funny reimagining of Milton’s poem boasts a ...

God’s personal but not necessarily profound take on the novel from Lucifer’s perspective. This revival production has an ...