The Complete Works of John Milton, Vol. 6: Vernacular Regicide and Republican Writings

Citation

(2013) The Complete Works of John Milton, Vol. 6: Vernacular Regicide and Republican Writings. Keeble N (Editor) & McDowell N (Editor) The Complete Works of John Milton. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199218059.book.1

Abstract
This is the fourth volume to be published in Oxford's 11-volume edition of the Complete Works of John Milton, the first complete scholarly edition for nearly 100 years. It brings together (for the first time in a single volume) Milton's English writing in prose on the political issues that exercised him throughout his life - civil and religious liberty, republicanism and the constitution of a free commonwealth, the rights and duties of citizens, resistance of tyranny and the role of military force in securing national stability. The eleven pieces here presented in chronological order, from The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649) to Milton's last prose work, his translation of the proclamation announcing the election of John Sobieski as King of Poland (1674), articulate his responses to the unprecedented events of the seventeenth century - civil war, regicide, the Commonwealth, Cromwellian rule, the Restoration of monarchy and the restored Stuart regime ― events which shaped the social, political and religious structures of modern Britain. They do so with unrivalled polemical and rhetorical skill, instinct with revolutionary fervour and political idealism.