The Elizabethan world picture

Description:

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 and 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: Angles; the Stars and Fortune; 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 all of men of the Renaissance. -- Cover.

subjects: 16th century,  Cosmology,  England,  English Philosophy,  English literature,  History,  History and criticism,  Philosophy,  Philosophy, English,  Religious thought,  Early modern,  Letterkunde,  Wereldbeeld,  Engels,  Ensaio Ingles,  Cosmology in literature,  Littérature anglaise,  Angleterre,  Civilisation,  Philosophy, history,  English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700,  Geography, pictorial works

Places: England

Times: 16th century,  Early modern, 1500-1700,  Modern period, 1500-