Milton’s Comus

A crystal cup promises to quench a traveller’s thirst; one taste, and a human face becomes a beast’s—while its owner believes himself more beautiful than ever.

First performed at Ludlow Castle in 1634, Milton’s masque begins with an Attendant Spirit sent to guard a noble lord’s children as their way leads through a shadowed wood. There lurks Comus, son of the enchantress Circe, offering weary wanderers a drink that steals their shape and leaves them forgetful of home. When the Lady is separated from her brothers, can she resist a temptation made to look like pleasure?

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