The Guardian

Comus review – lush and sexy reframing of Milton's chastity play

Lucy Bailey and the National Theatre of Brent’s Patrick Barlow bring the poet’s masque to magical life in this delightful staging Director Lucy Bailey has a deserved reputation for treating difficult ...
The Daily Telegraph

Lucy Bailey's hilarious Comus is an anarchic take on Milton – review

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The Guardian

Displaced gravity

Scenes from Comus by Geoffrey Hill 80pp, Penguin, £9.99 Geoffrey Hill is often and rightly said to be the greatest living English poet. He is also often said to be difficult. Usually people who say ...
The New York Times

EAST SIDERS SEE MILTON'S "COMUS"; Poet's Famous Masque Produced in the Educational Alliance Theatre. AN AUDIENCE OF CHILDREN Youngsters Who Paid Ten Cents Each to Get In ...

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London Evening Standard

Comus, theatre review: Exuberant approach to John Milton strays too far into pantomime territory

It’s rare to have a chance to see a performance of Comus, a masque written by John Milton in 1634 to celebrate the Earl of Bridgewater’s new post as Lord President of Wales. In the eighteenth century, ...
The New York Times

Milton's "Comus."

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