Comus: UCB Shakespeare Program 1994

The masque was given the customary apt audience-bearing of such works by redeploying the script as a graduation exercise with the Lady as a coed captive of local Beats from whom she was rescued by campus TAs. The attempted seduction matches that of Lady Anne by Richard of Gloucester in Richard III, or his later attempt against Queen Elizabeth in that play - and all derive from the temptation of Eve in the medieval biblical cycles. We brought a mock campus Chancellor in to make a climactic speech about good teaching citing Milton's own pamphlet "Of Education." Image: UCB Shakespeare Program Collection, photographer Velma Bourgeois Richmond. A full version of this production may be seen at our new website at Milton Revealed, to be found at http://townsendlab.berkeley.edu/milton-revealed.