Professor David Peimer
Milton’s Paradise Lost: Is it “of the devil’s party,” as William Blake suggests?
Summary
William Blake said that Milton was “of the devil’s party without knowing it.” We will look at what Blake meant, including the famous line from the poem, “Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.”
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.