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3 unusual facts about The State of Innocence


Ithuriel

In John Dryden's, The State of Innocence, Ithuriel figures in the cast of characters of one of 4 angels.

Restoration spectacular

The first, The State of Innocence (1677), was never staged, as his designated company, the King's, had neither the capital nor the machinery for it: a dramatisation of John Milton's Paradise Lost, it called for "rebellious angels wheeling in the air, and seeming transfixed with thunderbolts" over "a lake of brimstone or rolling fire".

The State of Innocence

It is basically a musical stage adaptation of John Milton's epic poem Paradise lost, a tribute to Milton rather than a satire of the poem.



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