Between Two Pillars The Hero's Plight in

John Milton's Samson is a figure at once Godly and unGodly. Some recent criticism of Samson Agonistes, with its notion of shifting contexts, treats the play as a repository of conflicting traditions. Between Two Pillars, instead of denying the play's aesthetic integrity, discerns in it a dialectical opposition between Samson's irrevocable election by God and his subjection instanced by his slavery to a fallen, unGodly order.

The dialectical conception	p. 1
Three late sonnets	p. 9
Samson's pride	p. 25
Samson's maneuver	p. 41
Samson's violence	p. 55
Movement in the drama	p. 67
Prolog	p. 81
The chorus	p. 93
Manoa	p. 101
Samson's despair	p. 113
Dalila	p. 119
Harapha	p. 131
The officer	p. 145
The temple	p. 163
Introduction	p. 177
The dialectical problem	p. 185
The temptation of bread	p. 193
The temptation of banquet	p. 201
The temptation of wealth	p. 207
The temptation of glory	p. 217
The temptation of David's throne	p. 227
The temptation of kingdoms	p. 233
The tower	p. 243
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Between Two Pillars The Hero's Plight in Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained

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