[Milton-L] Marathon Performance of Paradise Lost a Success!!

[Susan Allison]

The performance began on Saturday morning and ended Sunday evening.  
Mr. Basinger, who by the way is now 74 years old, delivered Paradise  
Lost as I think Milton intended it, as theater. Without wavering from  
the language of the text --except for a few missed words and one  
skipped passage, John Basinger performed as if he were channelling  
John Milton. The rhythms and music of the language, the portrayal of  
each character, the articulation of hidden meaning through  
performance,  the  research and study, the passion expressed  
physically, the humor at times and the insights into the text all  
truly combine to heighten the experience of Paradise Lost.  A few die  
hards made it through the entire performance and two of them had seen  
the first marathon in 2001.

The Milton List and its members have been very supportive and I would  
like to thank everyone who has purchased DVDs and/or sent notes and  
responses.  Middletown CT honored and celebrated the poet John Milton  
in a manner befitting the Poet's stature at Wesleyan University and  
The Buttonwood Tree. I just hope that on his 500th birthday there  
will be celebration far and wide, possibly in amphitheaters created  
especially for poetry!

Thank you and Happy Holidays,
Susan Allison


On Dec 15, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Hannibal Hamlin wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> A quick question many of you can probably answer easily.  In  
> academic publishing these days, what is the standard word count per  
> page?  I.e., how best to translated between word and page counts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hannibal
>
>
>
>
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