Satan: Milton's Paradise Lost In the epic poem of Paradise Lost by John Milton, Satan who is one of the characters is also depicted as a villainous character that is up to causing rifts and disturbance due to his quest for power and authority (Milton 58). ...
Sidney's sister, Mary Herbert, Lady Pembroke, approved the posthumous publication of Sidney's works and made her own contribution to English poetry by revising and continuing her brother's verse translation of the Psalms. In Psalm 58 she rejoices in in the justification of the faithful and appeals for wrath to descend on the heads of the un-Godly : Lord, crack their teeth : Lord crush these lions" jaws, So let them sink as water in the sand.... ...So make them melt as the dis-housed snail Or as the embryo, whose vital band Breaks ere it holds, and formless eyes do fai...
This is a valid point because almost all of the Shakespearean plays are based upon or stemmed from another author's work, many of which were not translated to English yet (Bethel 50). Some examples of this are Hamlet, which was taken from the French Histoires Tragiques; the French dialogue contained in Henry V; Othello, which was based on the 3 Italian Hecatommithi; and both The Rape of Lucrece and The Comedy of Errors had not been translated into English at this point in time (50). ... Of course, much of this information could be found in books, but there are some instances, such as...
