 I. Links to Related Internet Resources II. Comus Bibliography 1. A Performance History of Comus 2. Gender and Comus 3. Blending Classical, Pastoral, and Religious Imagery in Comus 4. An Egerton Family History 5. History of the Masque Genre 6. Rhetoric and Comus 7. Annotations 8. Miscellaneous Links to Related Internet Resources The Milton-L Home Page Milton Reading Room Renascence Editions Contains an edition of the 1645 Comus Florimène at the Court of Charles I An animated, interactive version of The English Court Masque, developed by the University of Washington School of Drama. Luminarium Comus Bibliography A Performance History of Comus Brown, Cedric. John Milton's Aristocratic Entertainments. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985. Creaser, John. "'The present aid of this occasion': the setting of Comus." The Court Masque. Ed. David Lindley. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1984. 111-134. Demaray, John G. Milton and the Masque Tradition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1968. Diekhoff, John S., ed. A Maske at Ludlow. Cleveland: Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1968. Flannagan, Roy. "Comus." The Cambridge Companion to Milton. Ed. Dennis Danielson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989. 21-34. Hubbell, J. Andrew. "Comus: Milton's Re-Formation of the Masque." Spokesperson Milton. Eds. Charles W. Durham and Kristin Pruitt McColgan. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP, 1994. 193-205. Hunter, W. B. Milton's Comus: Family Piece. New York: Whitston Publishing Co., 1983. Judge, Roy. "The 'country dancers' in the Cambridge Comus of 1908." Folklore. 110 (1999): 25-38. Leishman, J. B. Milton's Minor Poems. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971. Gender and Comus Belsey, Catherine. John Milton: Language, Gender, Power. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Bredbeck, Gregory W. Sodomy and Interpretation: Marlowe to Milton. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1991. Breitenberg, Mark. Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England. New York: Cambridge UP, 1996. Burt, Richard and John Michael Archer, eds. Enclosure Acts: Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1994. Graham, Jean E. "Virgin Ears: Silence, Deafness, and Chastity in Milton's Mask." MS 36 (1998): 1-17. Hagstrum, Jean. Sex and Sensibility: Ideal and Erotic Love from Milton to Mozart. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980. Kendrick, Christopher. "Milton and Sexuality: A Symptomatic Reading of Comus." Re-membering Milton. Ed. Mary Nyquist and Margaret W. Ferguson. New York: Metheun, 1998. Kerrigan, William. "The Politically Correct Comus: A Reply to John Leonard." MQ 4 (1993): 149-55. ---. "Gender and Confusion in Milton and Everyone Else." Hellas 2 (1991):195-220. Kim, Julie H. "The Lady's Unladylike Struggle: Redefining Patriarchal Boundaries in Milton's Comus." MS 35 (1997): 1-20. LeComte, Edward. Milton and Sex. New York: Columbia UP, 1978. Leonard, John. "Saying 'No' to Freud: Milton's A Mask and Sexual Assault." MQ 25 (1991): 129-40. Turner, James G. One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the Age of Milton. New York: Oxford UP, 1987. Walker, Julia M., ed. Milton and the Idea of Woman. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1988. (Article by Kathleen Wall, pp 52-65). Williams, Andrew P., ed. The Image of Manhood in Early Modern Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1999. Wittreich, Joseph. Feminist Milton. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1987. Back to Top Blending Classical, Pastoral, and Religious Imagery in Comus Brodwin, Leonora Leet. "Milton and the Renaissance Circe." Milton Studies 6 (1975): 21-84. Geoffrey of Monmouth. The History of the Kings of Britain. Trans. Lewis Thorpe. London: Penguin, 1966. Grimal, Pierre. The Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Trans. A.K. Maxwell-Hyslop. Oxford: Maxwell-Hyslop. 1986. Harding, Davis P. Milton and the Renaissance Ovid. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1946. Hollis, Hilda. "Without Charity: an Intertextual Study of Milton's Comus." Milton Studies 34 (1997): 159-78. Lindheim, Nancy. "Milton's Garden of Adonis: The Epilogue to the Ludlow Masque." Milton Studies 35 (1997): 21-41. McGuire, Maryann Cale. Milton's Puritan Masque. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983. Mulryan, John. "Through a Glass Darkly:" Milton's Reinvention of the Mythological Tradition. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1996. Revard, Stella P. Milton and the Tangles of Neaera's Hair: The Making of the 1645 Poems. Columbia, MI: University of Missouri Press, 1997. Smith, Eric. A Dictionary of Classical Reference in English Poetry. Totowa, NY: Barnes and Noble, 1984. Woodhouse, A.S.P. The Heavenly Muse: A Preface to Milton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972. An Egerton Family History Brested, Barbara. "Comus and the Castlehaven Scandal" Milton Studies 3 (1971), 201-224. Creaser, John. "Milton's Comus: The Irrelevance of the Castlehaven Scandal." MQ 4 (1987): 25-34. Hunter, William B. Milton's Comus: Family Piece. New York: Whitson Publishing, Troy, NY: 1983. Marcus, Leah. "The Milieu of Milton's Comus: Judicial Reform at Ludlow and the Problem of Sexual Assault." Criticism 25 (1983): 293-327. History of the Masque Genre Barroll, Leeds. "Inventing the Stuart Masque." The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque. Eds. David Bevington and Peter Holbrook. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. 121-143. Bevington, David, and Peter Holbrook, eds. The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. Chambers, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage. Vol. 1. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951. Cunningham, Dolora. "The Jonsonian Masque as a Literary Form." ELH 22(1955): 108-124. Lewalski, Barbara K. "Milton's Comus and the Politics of Masquing." The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque. Eds. David Bevington and Peter Holbrook. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. 296-320. Maguire, Nancy Klein. "The Theatrical Mask/Masque of Politics: The Case of Charles I." Journal of British Studies 28:1 (1989): 1-22. Norbrook, David. "The Reformation of the Masque." The Court Masque. Ed. David Lindley. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1984. 94-110. Orgel, Stephen. The Jonsonian Masque. New York: Columbia UP, 1981. Randall, Dale B. J. Winter Fruit. Lexington: University Press of KY, 1995. Welsford, Enid. The Court Masque. New York: Russell & Russell, 1962. Rhetoric and Comus Brown, Cedric. John Milton's Aristocratic Entertainments. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985. Fletcher, Angus. The Transcendental Masque: An Essay on Milton's Comus. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1971. Graham, Jean E. "Virgin Ears: Silence, Deafness, and Chastity in Milton's Mask." MS 36 (1998): 1-17. Hollis, Hilda. "Without Charity: an Intertextual Study of Milton's Comus." Milton Studies 34 (1997): 159-78. Kim, Julie H. "The Lady's Unladylike Struggle: Redefining Patriarchal Boundaries in Milton's Comus." MS 35 (1997): 1-20. Simons, Louise. "'And Heaven Gates Ore My Head': Death as Threshold in Milton's Masque." Milton Studies 23 (1988): 53-96. Annotations Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 14th ed. Ed. Ivor H. Evans. New York: Harper & Britannica Online. 1994-2000. 3 Dec. 2000 Geoffrey of Monmouth. The History of the Kings of Britain. Trans. Lewis Thorpe. London: Grimal, Pierre. The Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Trans. A.K.
Maxwell-Hyslop. Oxford: Hamilton, Edith. Mythology. New York: New American Library, 1969. McGuire, Maryann Cale. Milton's Puritan Masque. Athens, GA:University of Georgia Press, Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, online. Smith, Eric. A Dictionary of Classical Reference in English Poetry. Totowa, NY: Barnes & Miscellaneous Bennett, Joan S. "Virgin Nature in Comus." Milton Studies 23 (1988): 21-32. Calhoun, Thomas O. "On John Milton's A Mask at Ludlow." Milton Studies 6 (1975): 165-80. Clark, James Andrew. "Milton Naturans Milton Naturatus: The Debate over Nature in A Mask Presented at Ludlow." Milton Studies 20 (1984): 3-28. Cox, Catherine I. "The Garden Within: Milton's Ludlow Masque and the Tradition of Canticles." Milton Studies 31 (1995): 23-44. Cunnar, Eugene R. "Milton, The Shepherd of Hermas, and the Writing of a Puritan Masque." Milton Studies 23 (1988): 33-52. Durham, Charles W. and Kristin A. Pruitt, eds. "All in All:" Unity, Diversity, and the Miltonic Perspective. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP, 1999. Evans, J. Martin. The Miltonic Moment. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1998. Jenkins, Hugh. "Milton's Comus and the Country-House Poem." Milton Studies 32 (1996): 169-88. Kirkconnell, Watson. Awake the Courteous Echo: The Themes and Prosody of Comus, Lycidas and Paradise Regained in World Literature with Translations of the Major Analogues. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973. Kohn, Terry Kidner. "Landscape in the Transcendent Masque." Milton Studies 6 (1975): 143-64. Laguardia, Eric. Nature Redeemed: The Imitation of Order in Three Renaissance Poems. London: Mouton & Co., 1966. Miller, Nancy Weitz. "Chastity, Rape, and Ideology in the Castlehaven Testimonies and Milton's Ludlow Mask." Milton Studies 32 (1996): 153-68. Obertino, James. "Milton's Use of Aquinas in Comus." Milton Studies 22 (1987): 21-44. Scoufos, Alice-Lyle. "The Mysteries in Milton's Masque." Milton Studies 6 (1975): 113-42. Simons, Louise. "'And Heaven Gates Ore My Head': Death as Threshold in Milton's Masque." Milton Studies 23 (1988): 53-96. Tillyard, E.M.W. "Comus." Milton. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1967. 58-66. Woodhouse, A.S.P. and Douglas Bush, eds. A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton. Volume Two, Part Three. New York: Columbia UP, 1972. Home | Introduction | The Texts | Critical Essays Multimedia | Bibliography | Credits | Permissions |