Milton's Debt to Greek Tragedy in Samson Agonistes

action actors Aeschy Aeschylean Aeschylus Agamemnon ancient Antigone antistrophic Aristotle artistic Attic drama Attic tragedy best example blind Bohn catastrophe character Choephori choral ode Chorus classical Compare S. A. Creon critics Dagon Dalila death dialogue divine doubt dramatists epeisodion episode Eumenides Euripidean Euripides extant tragedies fact fate God's Greek tragedy Haigh Harapha Hebrew Hecuba Hellenic hero hero's Hipp idea ignore interesting irony Ismene Jebb Jebb's justice kommos lines Manoa matter Milton Milton's debt Milton's drama Milton's play mind misogyny models modern monody notice Oedipus Coloneus Oedipus Rex Orest parallel parodos perhaps peripeteia Philistines Philoctetes plot PMLA poem Poetics precedent preface prologos Prom Prometheus protagonist punishment question reason regeneration resembles Samson Agonistes says scene seems sense soliloquy song Sophoclean Sophocles speech spirit stasimon stichomythia suffering Supplices Tillyard tion tone Trachiniae tragedians Troad unity Verity whole words