Presidential Travels and Instructive Augury in Milton's Ludlow Masque<sup>1</sup>

Brown, Cedric C.

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“…In the water-nymph Sabrina, Milton's masque imagines a return of the original mother-tongue teacher, the ghostly past of the brothers' masculine education emerging from the boys'-school shadow, as, with her, "the instructing power is taken out of the masquers' hands." 51 Milton amplifies the correcting power of Sabrina, the "quasi-maternal figure … mother of her own former shape" 52 who saves the Lady from Comus' spell. Like the teaching mothers imagined by Vives and Taylor, though, Sabrina uses not fact or logic but a magical softening influence embodied in her ethical influence and her transformed female body.…”

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The Masculinities of John Milton

Hodgson¹

2022

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The Masculinites of John Milton is the first published monograph on Milton's men. Examining how Milton's fantasies of manly authority are framed in his major works, this study exposes the gaps between Milton's pleas for liberty and his assumptions that White men like himself should rule his culture. From schoolboys teaching each other how to traffic in young women in the Ludlow Masque, to his treatises on divorce that make the wife-less husband the best possible citizen, and to the later epics, in which Milton wrestles with male small talk and the ladders of masculine social power, his verse and prose draw from and amplify his culture's claims about manliness in education, warfare, friendship, citizenship, and conversation. This revolutionary poet's most famous writings reveal how ambivalently manhood is constructed to serve itself in early modern England.

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“…8 8 Cedric Brown points out, however, that there were other musicians based at Ludlow, and that there may have been music other than by Lawes at the performance ( Aristocratic Entertainments 197; “Presidential Travels” 8‐9). …”

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The Original Sabrina?

Creaser

2012

Milton Quarterly

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“…Shullenberger's psychosexual reading is generative, although his idea of the wood's “overdetermined” symbolic role in the Lady's “initiatory rite” into adulthood seems to me to underestimate the ambiguity of this transformation in the period. For the connections between A Mask and Egerton's position, see Brown, 1987; Sensabaugh.…”

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“Perplex't Paths”: Youth and Authority in Milton'sMask^*

Greteman

2009

Renaiss. Q.

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This essay argues that John Milton's "A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle" (1634) is influenced by early modern concepts of childhood in a way that critics have not recognized. Childhood was a problematic concept in contemporary religious, pedagogical, and legal discourses. Children were depicted as models of submission, but prone to impetuous indiscretion, and their path to adult agency was strewn with pitfalls, especially in the liminal period of youth. "A Mask" engages with and transforms these discourses. It rejects the political quietism routinely associated with childhood and shows that the child's unique sensitivity may offer a route to a particularly powerful kind of voice.

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Presidential Travels and Instructive Augury in Milton's Ludlow Masque¹

Cited by 9 publications

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The Masculinities of John Milton

The Masculinities of John Milton

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“Perplex't Paths”: Youth and Authority in Milton'sMask^*

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