The Elizabethan World Picture - Softcover

Tillyard, E. M.

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9780140135282: The Elizabethan World Picture

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ISBN 10: 0140135286 ISBN 13: 9780140135282

Publisher: Penguin, 1990

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This 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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"Shines a brilliant light." (Toby Clements The Big Issue in the North)

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'An exciting book. . . Dr Tillyard adds new incitement to the adventure of reading the Elizabethans. ' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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