Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton

by Emily R. Wilson and Emily Wilson

In Paradise Lost, Adam asks, "Why do I overlive?" Adam's anguished question is the basis for a critical analysis of living too long as a neglected but central theme in Western tragic literature. Emily Wilson examines this experience in works by Milton and by four of his literary predecessors: Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca, and Shakespeare. Each of these writers composed works in which the central character undergoes unbearable suffering or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801879647
• ISBN13: 9780801879647
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher