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St Marylebone Healing and Counselling Centre A MORNING IN HELL WITH JOHN MILTON Saturday 19 April 2008 Welcome to a morning
in Pandemonium with Milton and his original parliamentarians. This approach
to Paradise Lost focuses
largely on the Ôgreat ConsultÕ of Book II. It is sometimes forgotten that Milton with his passionate
Republican principles, as CromwellÕs right-hand man, had been himself
well-versed in the corridors of power. Using selected passages from the poem,
Joie Macaulay and Meg Harris
Williams, together with a band of rehearsed readers, will present the
arguments of MiltonÕs Ôdamned crewÕ - warmongering Moloch, smooth-tongued
Belial, profiteering Mammon, pragmatic Beelzebub, and above all, the
magnificent study of passionate envy in his complex Satan, whose proud boast
was that Ôthe mind is its own place, and in itself/ Can make a heaven of
hell, a hell of heavenÕ. The poem affords a
wealth of opportunities for discussion in spheres political, psychological,
aesthetic and religious. 9.30am for
10.00am – 12.45pm at: St
Marylebone Healing and Counselling Centre, 17
Marylebone Road, London NW1 Tickets
£20.00 (Concessions for those on
a low income £10 on request) Joie Macaulay
read Classics and English at Cambridge University, followed by a course in
play-production at the Central School of Speech and Drama. As a teacher, she became head of
various school English departments, and later Open University tutor in Drama
for the third year literature degree course. She has directed amateur plays
and operas varying from ÔPeer GyntÕ and MonteverdiÕs ÔOrfeoÕ to Daisy
AshfordÕs ÔYoung VisitersÕ and a puppet ÔMysteryÕ cycle. After retirement she
was for many years a governor of St Marylebone School. Meg Harris
Williams is a writer and artist with a lifelong psychoanalytic education
and a particular interest in the relation between psychoanalysis and
aesthetic appreciation. She was
introduced to Milton at South Hampstead High School by Joie Macaulay and read
English at Cambridge and Oxford universities. Her first book was Inspiration in Milton and Keats (Macmillan 1982) and she has also written on
Milton in The Chamber of Maiden Thought (Routledge 1991) and in her recent book The Vale of Soulmaking:
the postKleinian model of the mind (Karnac 2005). Website: www.artlit.info ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOKING FORM To: St Marylebone
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