Abstract
Milton himself, of course, insisted on the “ancient” and “Italian,” the “traditional,“ character of Samson Agonistes in his pithy preface to the play with a title reminiscent of Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy: “Of That Sort of Dramatic Poem which is call'd Tragedy.” He also let us know why he bothered to repeat simple if high‐sounding commonplaces about tragedy: “This is mention'd,” he wrote toward the close of his preface, “to vindicate Tragedy from the small esteem, or rather infamy, which in the account of many it undergoes at this day with other common Interludes ……“
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