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The Elizabethan World Picture

E.M.W. Tillyard

3.8/5 ( ratings)

This brief & illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age & later is an useful companion for readers of the great writers of the 16th & 17th centuries: Shakespeare, the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne, Milton etc. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Prof. Tillyard in the process of its various transformations by the dynamic spirit of the Renaissance. Among his topics are: Angels; the Stars & Fortunes; the Analogy between Macrocosm & Microcosm; the Four Elements; the Four Humours; Sympathies; Correspondences; & the Cosmic Dance--ideas & symbols which inspirited the minds & imaginations not only of the Elizabethans but of all of the Renaissance.
Preface
Introductory
Order
Sin
The Chain of Being
The Links in the Chain
The Corresponding Planes
The Correspondences
The Cosmic Dance
Epilogue
Notes
Index

Language: English

Pages: 116

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage/Random House (NYC)

Release: October 12, 1959

ISBN: 0394701623

ISBN 13: 9780394701622

The Elizabethan World Picture

E.M.W. Tillyard

3.8/5 ( ratings)

This brief & illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age & later is an useful companion for readers of the great writers of the 16th & 17th centuries: Shakespeare, the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne, Milton etc. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Prof. Tillyard in the process of its various transformations by the dynamic spirit of the Renaissance. Among his topics are: Angels; the Stars & Fortunes; the Analogy between Macrocosm & Microcosm; the Four Elements; the Four Humours; Sympathies; Correspondences; & the Cosmic Dance--ideas & symbols which inspirited the minds & imaginations not only of the Elizabethans but of all of the Renaissance.
Preface
Introductory
Order
Sin
The Chain of Being
The Links in the Chain
The Corresponding Planes
The Correspondences
The Cosmic Dance
Epilogue
Notes
Index

Language: English

Pages: 116

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage/Random House (NYC)

Release: October 12, 1959

ISBN: 0394701623

ISBN 13: 9780394701622

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