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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... doctrine I do not avoid illustrating from unfamiliar writers . It has been impossible always to distinguish between these two kinds of illustration ; and the reader must not be surprised if he finds a piece of Shakespeare or Milton used ...
... doctrine bore the same interpretation . The demiurge created the universe after the divine idea ; hence the universe was good : but , as it was but a copy , it was removed from the idea and was thereby corrupted from perfection . As ...
... doctrine that our wills are our own and that the stars ' influence can be resisted may not be sufficiently recognised , the typical Eliza- bethan habit of mind being too often taken to be one of desperate recognition of an ineluctable ...
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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 |