The Elizabethan world picture
By: E. M. W. Tillyard
Series: A Modern Library paperback -- P53
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1959
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Philosophy; History and criticism; Chain of being (Philosophy) in literature; English literature; Religious thought; Cosmology; Medieval Philosophy; History
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 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 Fortune; the Analogy between the Macrocosm and the 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.
Notes: Reprint of the 1943 ed. published by Chatto & Windus, London.

Includes bibliographical references and index.