Eyeless In Gaza (TV Series)
Eyeless in Gaza may refer to: * "Eyeless in Gaza", a quote from John Milton's closet drama '' Samson Agonistes'' * Eyeless in Gaza (novel), 1936 novel by Aldous Huxley, who took the title from Milton's drama * Eyeless in Gaza (band) Eyeless In Gaza are an English musical duo of Martyn Bates and Peter Becker, based in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. They have described their music as "veer ngcrazily from filmic ambiance to rock and pop, industrial funk to avant-folk styles." For ...

Samson Agonistes
''Samson Agonistes'' (from Greek Σαμσών ἀγωνιστής, "Samson the champion") is a tragic closet drama by John Milton. It appeared with the publication of Milton's '' Paradise Regained'' in 1671, as the title page of that volume states: "Paradise Regained / A Poem / In IV Books / To Which Is Added / Samson Agonistes". It is generally thought that ''Samson Agonistes'' was begun around the same time as ''Paradise Regained'' but was completed after the larger work, possibly very close to the date of publishing, but there is no certainty. Background Milton began plotting various subjects for tragedies in a notebook created in the 1640s. Many of the ideas dealt with the topic of Samson, and he gave them titles such as ''Samson pursophorus or Hybristes'' ("Samson the Firebrand, or Samson the Violent"), ''Samson marriing or in Ramath Lechi'', and ''Dagonalia'' (the unholy rites at which Samson performed his vindication of God). The title he chose emphasises Samson as a war ...
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Eyeless In Gaza (novel)
''Eyeless in Gaza'' is a bestselling novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1936. The title is taken from a phrase in John Milton's ''Samson Agonistes'': : ... Promise was that I : Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver; :Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him :Eyeless in Gaza at the Mill with slaves ... The title of the book, like Milton's poem, recalls the biblical story of Samson: he was captured by the Philistines, his eyes were burned out and he was taken to Gaza, where he was forced to work at grinding grain in a mill. The chapters of the novel are not ordered chronologically. Huxley's biographer, Sybille Bedford, whom Huxley knew personally (they were neighbours in the south of France), claims in her fictional memoir ''Jigsaw'' that two of the novel's characters – Mary Amberley, a drug addict, and her daughter – were partly inspired by Bedford and her mother, who was addicted to morphine. Plot The novel focuses on four periods in the life of a soci ...
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