SDF

1. SAMSON AGONISTES
John Milton

2. INTRODUCTION
• Tragic closet drama
• Published with Milton's Paradise Regain'd in 1671,
• as the title page of that volume states: "Paradise Regained / A Poem / In IV Books
/ To Which Is Added / Samson Agonistes".
• “Just are the ways of God.
• And justifiable to men”.

3. CHARACTERS
• “Eyeless in Gaza at the Mill with slaves”.
• Samson
• father Manoa
• wife Dalila
• A Chorus of Hebrew Elders

4. • Philistines
• Daddy’s Visit - money for his son's ransom
• wife Dalila
• Harapha of Gath, a giant