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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... shows himself incapable of the human power of education . Prospero too learns his own lesson . He cannot transcend ... show'd his back above The element they lived in . The passage loses half its meaning unless the reference to the ...
... shows his knowledge of the general doctrine . Elyot shows the same when he says that the governor's tutor shall commend the perfect understanding of music , declaring how necessary it is for the better attaining the knowledge of a ...
... show that your fair hands can dance the hey , Which your fine feet would learn as well as they . Then , prompted by the ... shows the cosmic dance reproduced in the body politic , thus completing the series of dances in macrocosm body ...
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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 |