From: Paul Stanwood [stap@home.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 12:17 AM To: milton-l@richmond.edu Subject: Re: Samson Anthologized? About Frank Huntley's adaptation of Samson Agonistes: I have a copy that Frank (a friend and mentor--with Austin Warren) sent to me in 1978, the same year of the first performance in Ann Arbor, and I can copy it for anyone who is really interested in it. Please contact me directly off the list , or write to me: Professor P. G. Stanwood Department of English University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 Canada The script is about 40 double-spaced, typed pages. Paul Stanwood Cynthia Gilliatt wrote: > Nice to hear about Frank Huntley - who was one of my professors in grad > school - and St. Andrews, where I worshipped while in Ann Arbor - I > graduated before the production of SA - hope you can run down a copy. > Cynthia G. > > ------------------- > Cynthia Gilliatt From cowardice, that shuns new truth, > English Dept. From indolence, content with half truths, > J. M. U. From arrogance, that claims all truth, > Good Lord, deliver us. > Member, JMU Safe Zones > > English Department > James Madison University > MSC 1801 > Harrisonburg VA 22807 From: Cynthia Gilliatt [gilliaca@jmu.edu] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 7:56 AM To: milton-l@richmond.edu Subject: Re: Samson Anthologized? Nice to hear about Frank Huntley - who was one of my professors in grad school - and St. Andrews, where I worshipped while in Ann Arbor - I graduated before the production of SA - hope you can run down a copy. Cynthia G. ------------------- Cynthia Gilliatt From cowardice, that shuns new truth, English Dept. From indolence, content with half truths, J. M. U. From arrogance, that claims all truth, Good Lord, deliver us. Member, JMU Safe Zones English Department James Madison University MSC 1801 Harrisonburg VA 22807 From: Roy Flannagan [roy@gwm.sc.edu] Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 9:01 AM To: owner-milton-l@richmond.edu Subject: Milton news from Hollywood I thought the list might be interested in how Milton comes up when a group of sci-fi horror writers start discussing good and evil and fallen angels. My friend and former student Jack vets scripts for Paramount. Roy Flannagan >Roy, > >I wanted to drop you a belated note to let you know I can see you fitting >very nicely into that coastal Southern life. Congrats. > >I also thought you'd like to know I was recently able to put my readings of >Milton's "Paradise Lost" to good use. Last Saturday at my screenwriter's >group, we were discussing a low-budget horror idea somebody wanted to write. >It had a time machine inadvertently causing rips in the boundary between the >normal world and the Supernatural. And of course that meant demons were >secretly using it as a way of "breaking out" of hell. > >While the early consensus was that said demons had to be at the beck and call >of Satan and part of his grand schemes, I dissented and proceeded to bring >out my vast knowledge of Miltonian fallen angels. I explained, for example, >that from the beginning they espoused greatly differing schemes as to how to >respond to their humiliating defeat. I suggested that individual demons >would likely be utterly selfish and opportunistic, their loyalty to Satan >primarily coming out of fear. > >Two other people who had read "Paradise Lost" joined in as we recounted >Milton's version of the Fall in greater detail. The net result was an >interesting discussion of Milton and a slightly less stereotypical version of >the bad guys. > >Now you can consider your academic career *completely* vindicated.... > >Jack Gilbert