Monday, February 13, 2006

Freudians

Working on a project tonight, a sort of survey of recent criticism of Milton's masque "Comus." I am come to the conclusion that Freudians have very dark woods of minds, rather thorny and difficult to follow paths through, and the paths lead inexorably to caves full of all uncleanness. This is probably not news to anyone.

For instance, were you aware that Milton was actually avenging himself on Shakespeare because in the masque, Comus was temporarily "ravished" by hearing the Lady's song?