Samson Agonistes
Author: first_name: John
last_name: Milton
Language: English
Year: 1671

“The Sun to me is dark<br />And silent as the Moon,<br />When she deserts the night<br />Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.”<br /><br />Milton composes his last extended work as a tragedy according to the classical Unities of Time, Place and Action. Nevertheless it “never was intended for the stage” and is here declaimed by a single reader.<br /><br />Samson the blinded captive, in company with the Chorus of friends and countrymen, receives his visitors on their varying missions and through them