The Elizabethan world picture / E.M.W. Tillyard.
Tillyard, E. M. W. (Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall), 1889-1962.
PR428.P5 T5 1960z (Mapit)
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Title
The Elizabethan world picture / E.M.W. Tillyard.
Author
Tillyard, E. M. W. (Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall), 1889-1962.
ISBN
0394701623
9780394701622
Publication Details
New York : Vintage Books, [196-?]
Language
English
Description
ix, 116 pages ; 19 cm.
Call Number
PR428.P5 T5 1960z
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.903
820.9003
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-114) and index.
Series
Vintage book ; V-162.
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Sin
The Chain of Being
The Links in the Chain. Angels and ether ; The stars and fortune ; The elements ; Man ; Animals, plants, and metals
The Corresponding Planes
The Correspondences. Celestial powers and other creations ; Macrocosm and body politic ; Macrocosm and microcosm ; Body politic and microcosm ; General significance
The Cosmic Dance.

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