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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... common theological bond than they were divided by ethical disagreements . They had in common a mass of basic assumptions about the world , which they never disputed and whose importance varied in- versely with this very meagreness of ...
... common substance were thought , in co - operation with stellar influence and the occasional extraordinary inter- vention of God , to explain the way the sublunary world was conducted . But the elements could not be limited to qualities ...
... common matter of the earth . Each humour has its own counterpart among the elements . The correspondence is best set out in a table . Element Humour Common quality Earth Melancholy Cold and dry Water -Phlegm Cold and moist Air Blood Hot ...
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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 |