Platonic Love in John Milton's Comus
Plato, the most influential of all thinkers of ancient Greece, has exerted an astonishingly powerful effect on Western civilization and culture. In particular, European Renaissance writers and poets are greatly indebted to his doctrine of love, as discussed in detail in his Symposium. John Milton, t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fas |
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University of Isfahan
2016-09-01
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| Series: | Metaphysics |
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| Online Access: | http://mph.ui.ac.ir/article_21447_7a59dabcc7093fc06585b1a147385967.pdf |
| Summary: | Plato, the most influential of all thinkers of ancient Greece, has exerted an astonishingly powerful effect on Western civilization and culture. In particular, European Renaissance writers and poets are greatly indebted to his doctrine of love, as discussed in detail in his Symposium. John Milton, the last and one of the most illustrious figures of Renaissance ٍEurope and England, is no way out of Plato's sphere of leaden influence: everywhere in his work there are echoes and traces of Plato. The present essay seeks first to briefly study the concept of Platonic love and then attempts to examine young Milton's understanding of this doctrine and his practice of employing it in one of his early dramatic works, Comus, A Masque. Ultimately, the article can be best summarized by stating that Milton’s Mask play told what he had already learned about chastity and love and beauty from the Dialogues of Plato. |
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| ISSN: | 2008-8086 2476-3276 |