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This chapter traces Southwell's presence in Shakespeare's Richard II and Milton's Paradise Lost. While Shakespeare's Richard partly parodies Southwell's poetry of tears tradition in his strained effort to appear Christ-like, Milton's Satan echoes Southwell in his return to Eden in Book 9 appearing very much like a Jesuit making his way back into Protestant England under dark of night.
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This page is a summary of: The poetry of tears and the ghost of Robert Southwell in Shakespeare'sRichard IIand Milton'sParadise Lost, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511481444.002.
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