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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... medieval pic- < ture . Now the Middle Ages derived their world picture from an amalgam of Plato and the Old Testament , invented by the Jews of Alexandria and vivified by the new religion of Christ . It was unlike paganism ( apart from ...
... Middle Ages to Renaissance because it deals with this same conflict as if there might be a doubt about the result . Actually it does not differ greatly in spirit from the most popular of all moral treatises during the Middle Ages , the ...
... Medieval , they served not quite the same parts of the mind . The Middle Ages used them more coolly and intellectually , rather as if they were a mathematical formula . They occur fittingly in Chaucer's Astrolabe . Higden , the monk of ...
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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 |