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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... spheres in the order given above , the seraphs regulating the primum mobile and so on . Dionysius also sees a ... spheres . But in Plato each sphere made its own note ; there was no question of all the stars singing . Shakespeare ...
... spheres of the physical universe are not regulated by the differ- ent orders of angels on the medieval scheme but duplicated Platonically by other , ideal ones : For far above these heavens , which here we see , Be others far exceeding ...
... sphere and devotion to the Intelligence or Angel revolving it . This in Donne is not just a piece of private medievalism but a current orthodox notion . Hooker hints at it . Goodman finds the motion of the spheres so complicated that it ...
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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 |