By excerpting the major direct-speech passages in Paradise Lost one creates a neoclassical drama, which ran for two hours when staged at UCB.

See John Milton, Paradise Lost, video-recording, 1985, directed by Paul Shepard & produced by UCB Educational Television Office. Executive producer: Hugh Richmond. Video based on two live public performances in April, 1985, in the Fife Room of Wheeler Hall. Student cast directed by Paul Shepard; script & producer: Hugh Richmond. This script has been published as John Milton's Drama of "Paradise Lost", New York: Peter Lang, 1992, pp. xii, 80. Selections from this recording are available in the video documentary "Milton by Himself" (Films for the Humanities), and is recorded fully in the video gallery on this site.