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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... Macrocosm and Body Politic 73 77 228 60 ( iii ) Macrocosm and Microcosm ( iv ) Body Politic and Microcosm ( v ) General Significance 8 THE COSMIC DANCE 9 EPILOGUE NOTES INDEX 94 100 103 107 81 82 84 87 92 25 PEOPLE INTRODUCTORY E still ...
... Macrocosm and Body Politic It was a commonplace that order in the state duplicates the order of the macrocosm . In the Homily of Obedience in the 1547 book of Homilies the two orders are put side by side : In the earth God hath assigned ...
... macrocosm and body politic duplicated by glow- worm and grass , though not solemn , has its own proper seriousness . ( iii ) Macrocosm and Microcosm Just as in the chain of being the position of man was the most interesting of all , so ...
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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 |