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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... king : behold , his eye , As bright as is the eagle's , lightens forth Controlling majesty . There in short space we have four of the traditional primacies : fire among the elements , the sun among the planets , the king among men , the ...
... king of the fish is understood . Antony stood out in regal fashion above the revels he delighted in like the dolphin , king of the fishes , showing his back above the waves . Aufidius , speculating how Coriolanus will deal with Rome ...
... king , ruler of the state . The roi soleil is indeed one of the most persistent of all Eliza- bethan commonplaces , and never was Shakespeare using more familiar material than when in the same speech he said And therefore is 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 |