The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of Shakespeare, Donne and MiltonThis 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. |
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... Elizabeth to be omitted . These are mainly derived from the renewed cult of Plato and Plotinus that began with Ficino , the Florentine translator and annotator of both philosophers , and was popularized in England through various ...
... Elizabeth . The theological trend of the whole sixteenth century had been Pauline , and in Paul it is this war , not contemplation or beatitude , that holds the first place . Early in the century Erasmus had equated the Reason of the ...
... Elizabeth as the central point of the court's dance- pattern " in this our Golden Age " would have persuaded Penelope to lay aside her prejudice . The introduction of Queen Elizabeth and her court is not mere flattery ; it shows the ...
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The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of ... Eustace M. Tillyard No preview available - 1959 |
The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of ... Eustace M. Tillyard No preview available - 1959 |