Comus
HAVING missed the credits in the BBC production of the Masque of Comus I do not know to whom we are indebted for this fine performance. I think I was struck most of all by the music, which for me converted the whole from a scholastic study in blank verse into the graceful and musical entertaipment Milton intended it to be. Even the casual listener’s sleepy Sunday afternoon senses were liable to be roused to attention by lines of great force and vividness -Comus’s lusty persuasiveness, or the Lady’s pleas for mercy. But most notable of all was the Attendant Spirit’s performance, both in speech and singingone to which Mr. Henry Lawes himself, as musical composer and the original Spirit, could hardly have taken exception. When the Attendant Spirit, as Milton puts it, "epiloguizes," one can readily forget the Milton of one’s schooldays.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 455, 12 March 1948, Page 9
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144Comus New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 455, 12 March 1948, Page 9
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