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Paradise Lost.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : Playwrights Canada Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (160 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781770919358
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Paradise LostDDC classification:
  • 812/.6
LOC classification:
  • PR9199.4.S5295 .S554 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Freedom And The Fall by Paul Stevens -- Repopulating the Canon by Erin Shields -- Production History -- Characters -- On Casting -- Setting -- Epigraph -- Act 1 -- Scene 1 - I Woke Up -- Scene 2 - The Infernal Council -- Scene 3 - The Gates of Hell -- Act 2 -- Scene 1 - The Heavenly Council -- Scene 2 - Finding Earth -- Scene 3 - In the Garden -- Act 3 -- Scene 1 - Preparing the Defence -- Scene 2 - Evening in the Garden -- Scene 3 - Standing Guard -- Scene 4 - The Dream -- Act 4 -- Scene 1 - The Play -- Scene 2 - The Ultimate Sacrifice -- Scene 3 - Justice -- Scene 4 - Let's Split Up -- Scene 5 - Doesn't Beauty Make You Sick -- Act 5 -- Scene 1 - The Fall -- Scene 2 - Sin and Death's Ascension -- Scene 3 - Aftermath -- Scene 4 - Consequences -- Scene 5 - Satan's Return -- Scene 6 - Exodus -- Scene 7 - So What Do You Say? -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author.
Summary: Erin Shields turns Heaven and Hell upside down in this witty, modern, feminist retelling of John Milton's epic poem about the first battle between good and evil. In Shields's Paradise Lost, the seventeenth century and present day are seamlessly intertwined as Satan vents to an audience about her frustration for being cast out of Heaven and her thoughts on oppression.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Freedom And The Fall by Paul Stevens -- Repopulating the Canon by Erin Shields -- Production History -- Characters -- On Casting -- Setting -- Epigraph -- Act 1 -- Scene 1 - I Woke Up -- Scene 2 - The Infernal Council -- Scene 3 - The Gates of Hell -- Act 2 -- Scene 1 - The Heavenly Council -- Scene 2 - Finding Earth -- Scene 3 - In the Garden -- Act 3 -- Scene 1 - Preparing the Defence -- Scene 2 - Evening in the Garden -- Scene 3 - Standing Guard -- Scene 4 - The Dream -- Act 4 -- Scene 1 - The Play -- Scene 2 - The Ultimate Sacrifice -- Scene 3 - Justice -- Scene 4 - Let's Split Up -- Scene 5 - Doesn't Beauty Make You Sick -- Act 5 -- Scene 1 - The Fall -- Scene 2 - Sin and Death's Ascension -- Scene 3 - Aftermath -- Scene 4 - Consequences -- Scene 5 - Satan's Return -- Scene 6 - Exodus -- Scene 7 - So What Do You Say? -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author.

Erin Shields turns Heaven and Hell upside down in this witty, modern, feminist retelling of John Milton's epic poem about the first battle between good and evil. In Shields's Paradise Lost, the seventeenth century and present day are seamlessly intertwined as Satan vents to an audience about her frustration for being cast out of Heaven and her thoughts on oppression.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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