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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... called hierarchies . Behold the four elements , whereof the body of man is compact , how they be set in their places called spheres , iv higher or lower according to the sovereignty of their natures . Behold so the order that God hath ...
... called optimists . In spite of original sin and the corruption it imparted to the natural world , God's great plan still stood out conspicuous in his works . But there were those who thought the whole creation corrupt and in its ...
... called the primum mobile outside that of the fixed stars , which dictated the motions proper to all the rest . Within this uni- verse there was a sharp division between everything beneath the sphere of the moon and all the rest of 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 |