Milton's Macbeth: Time, Irony, and Evil in Paradise Lost 

Join us for an engaging talk by Gary Kuchar, faculty fellow at UVic’s Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, as he draws connections between Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Milton’s Paradise Lost, Milton learned much from Shakespeare's Macbeth, including how to depict absolutist ways of thinking in ways that absorb and transcend the topical pressures that defined his own historical and political moment. The result in Paradise Lost is a poem that continues to speak to ongoing concerns about radical evil as a metaphysically insubstantial but psycho-dynamically recognizable form of self-refuting viciousness, a form of absolutism characterized by a specific, inadvertently ironic, relation to time and the mystery of eternity. 

Speaker: Dr. Gary Kuchar, professor of English at the University of Victoria