[Milton-L] Samson as suicide bomber

[jonnyangel]

God**** the Samson as suicide bomber thing is getting old.

Really old, 

J 



On 5/7/09 11:13 AM, "srevard at siue.edu" <srevard at siue.edu> wrote:

> Miltonists might be interested in the article today on the front
> page of the Arts section of the NY TIMES, as it deals with
> the question of Samson as suicide bomber and reverses the
> cultural identifications, turning the biblical Jews into
> Palistinians and biblical Philistines into present-day Israelis.
> 
> Flanders Opera's production of Saint-Saens opera deals with
> a question Miltonists have been repeatedly considering: is
> Samson into a suicide bomber? The production does so by
> reversing the roles in the bible and thus making opera-goers
> confront the present political situation in the middle East.
> A fuller account of the production is found on the NY TIMES
> website for today in the Arts section.
> 
> As I noted in my article on musical treatments of Samson,
> Saint-Saens's opera has some interesting connections with
> Milton's poem, particularly on the political front.
> 
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