The State of Innocence The State of Innocence The State of Innocence was intended to be performed as an opera, with the libretto written in 1674, (first published in 1677) by John Dryden. It is basically a musical stage adaptation of John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost", a tribute to Milton rather than a satire of the poem. That Dryden was an admirer of Milton's is surprising as the two men were politically opposed. Milton was against the restoration of the British monarchy, while the royalist Dryden was created England’s first Poet Laureate by the restored Charles II. So great an admirer of Milton
Life of Adam and Eve 30–49, 51 is in common with that of the "Apocalypse of Moses", though with great differences in details. Chapters 15–30 ("Eve's Tale") of the "Apocalypse of Moses" have no parallel in the "Latin Life of Adam and Eve". The penance of Adam and Eve in the water can be found also in the later Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan. The Slavonic Adam book was published by Jagic along with a Latin translation in 1893. This version agrees for the most part with the Greek Apocalypse of Moses. It has, moreover, a section, §§ 28–39, which, though not found