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Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton.(Book Review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20051001
Author:Tambling, Jeremy

Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton. By EMILY R. WILSON. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 289 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8018-7964-7.

Mocked with Death discusses tragedy in an unusual way, with two plays by Sophocles, two by Shakespeare, one by Euripides and one by Seneca, and with two chapters on Milton. It takes as inspiration Adam's words from Paradise Lost, x. 773-75: 'Why do I overlive, | Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out | To deathless pain?', and claims that the works discussed include a common theme of living too ...

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