Paradise Lost
"Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven"
Paradise Lost was completed by Milton at the Cottage in Chalfont St. Giles to which he escaped the plague in 1665. The original manuscript was shown to his pupil Thomas Ellwood and published in 1667.
In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and briefly in danger of execution - Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways to God to men' or expose the cruelty of Christianity.
Warner Bros. of the USA have just announced a 150 million dollar investment in a film of Paradise Lost. Work starts in October 2011 for release in 2013.
Shooting to take place mainly in Canada.
Make certain you visit the cottage before the rush!