| The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of Shakespeare, Donne and Milton Contributor(s): Tillyard, Eustace M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0394701623 ISBN-13: 9780394701622 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $11.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1959 Annotation: This small book has come out of an attempt to write a larger one on Shakespeare's Histories. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Renaissance - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.9 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 4.33" W x 7.25" (0.26 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This brief and illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne and Milton, among many others. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Professor Tillyard in the process of its various transformations by the dynamic spirit of the Renaissance. Among his topics are: Angels; the Stars and Fortunes; the Analogy between Macrocosm and Microcosm; the Four Elements; the Four Humours; Sympathies; Correspondences; and the Cosmic Dance--ideas and symbols which inspirited the minds and imaginations not only of the Elizabethans but of all men of the Renaissance. |
