John Milton's Aristocratic Entertainments »

This book is the first comprehensive account of Milton's two aristocratic entertainments, Arcades and Comus

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction;

1. Contexts and occasions;
2. The arcadians;
3. Komos - the adversary for the occasion;
4. The young heroes - realism and idealism;
5. Spiritual instructions;
6. 1634 and 1637 - texts, epilogues, audiences;
7. The sense of vocation in the 1630s; Appendix; A note on the Golden Grove portrait; Notes; Index.