Reforming the Masque: The Dialectic of the Antimasque and Masque in Milton's Comus
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In the seventeenth century, the court masque played the role of royal propaganda by celebrating the political order and harmony of the society. The order that the court masque represented could be achieved through either its reconciliation or banishment of the antimasque which symbolizes “forces of anarchy, rebellion, and disorder.” Milton's Comus, however, attempts to reshape the masque tradition in that the antimasques, not the masque itself,represents England. Moreover, compared with Jonson's Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue and Carew's Coelum Britannicum, Milton's Comus not only reverses the roles of the antimasque and masque but more importantly, reflects Milton's complicated, reformative responses to the masque tradition. Milton, the revisionist of the masque genre, culminates in his development of the dialectic relation between the antimasque and masque, in which the two coexist, not excluding the other while keeping their own nature unaltered. Unlike the masque tradition before Milton which segregates the world of the antimasque and that of the masque, in Milton's masque, Comus the leader of the antimasque is attributed to have a virtuous function of testing the young children's “youth,” “faith,” “patience,” and “strength,” thus contributing to their moral growth.
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In the seventeenth century, the court masque played the role of royal propaganda by celebrating the political order and harmony of the society. The order that the court masque represented could be achieved through either its reconciliation or banishment of the antimasque which symbolizes “forces of anarchy, rebellion, and disorder.” Milton's Comus, however, attempts to reshape the masque tradition in that the antimasques, not the masque itself,represents England. Moreover, compared with Jonson's Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue and Carew's Coelum Britannicum, Milton's Comus not only reverses the roles of the antimasque and masque but more importantly, reflects Milton's complicated, reformative responses to the masque tradition. Milton, the revisionist of the masque genre, culminates in his development of the dialectic relation between the antimasque and masque, in which the two coexist, not excluding the other while keeping their own nature unaltered. Unlike the masque tradition before Milton which segregates the world of the antimasque and that of the masque, in Milton's masque, Comus the leader of the antimasque is attributed to have a virtuous function of testing the young children's “youth,” “faith,” “patience,” and “strength,” thus contributing to their moral growth.
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