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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... perfect metal and perfect health in the patient . It is this alchemical lore that gives point to the scene between Timon and the two cour- tezans . They clamour for gold , the symbol of health , and Timon in giving it ironically exhorts ...
... perfect understanding of music , declaring how necessary it is for the better attaining the knowledge of a public weal : which is made of an order of estates and degrees , and , by reason thereof , containeth in it a perfect harmony ...
... perfect measure is , Yet oftentimes their music makes them kiss . What makes the vine about the elm to dance With turnings windings and embracements round ? What makes the loadstone to the north advance His subtile point , as if from ...
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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 |