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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... cosmic order . I found , further , that the Elizabethans saw this single order under three aspects : a chain , a set of correspondences , and a dance . Here then was a subject too big for a single chapter in a more specialised book , a ...
... cosmic order was strong . To us chaos means hardly more than confusion on a large scale ; to an Elizabethan it meant the cosmic anarchy before creation and the wholesale dissolution that would result if the pressure of Providence ...
... cosmic harmony . It was creative love that first persuaded the warring atoms to move in order . Time and all its divisions are a dance . The stars have their own dance , the greatest being that of the Great Year , which lasts six ...
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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 |