This collection reconsiders Milton's engagement with Greek texts, with attention to the theological and theatrical meanings attached to Greek in the early modern period. The collection emphasizes the associations of Greek with both Protestantism and the origins of the theatre. It was published as a special issue of The Seventeenth Century.

1. Milton, drama, and Greek texts: preface 2. Circean transformation and the poetics of Milton's Masque 3. John Milton and the Beard-Hater: encounters with Julian the Apostate 4. Paul's Euripides, Greek tragedy and Hebrew antiquity in Paradise Regain'd 5. Milton's Euripides and the superior rationality of the heathen 6. The politics of Greek tragedy in Samson Agonistes

Tania Demetriou is a Lecturer in English at the University of York, UK

Tanya Pollard is Professor of English at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA.