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The Elizabethan World Picture

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 Elememts; the Four Humours; Sympathies; Corresppondences; 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.

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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 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 Elememts; the Four Humours; Sympathies; Corresppondences; 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."@en
  • "Discusses the ideas of world order which appeared in the literature of Elizabethan England."@en
  • "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."@en

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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "History"
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  • "The elizabethan world picture"
  • "The Elizabethen world picture"
  • "The Elizabethan World Picture"
  • "The Elizabethan World Picture"@en
  • "La cosmovision isabelina"
  • "La Cosmovisión isabelina"
  • "The Elizabeth world picture"
  • "The elisabethan world picture"
  • "The Elizabethan world picture : / a study of the idea of order in the age of Shakespeare, Donne and Milton"
  • "The elizabethan world picture : by E.M.W. Tillyard"
  • "Elizabethan world picture"
  • "Elizabethan world picture"@en
  • "The Elizabethan world picture : A Study on the idea of order in the age of Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton"
  • "The Elizabethan world picture : [a study of the idea of order the age of Shakespeare, Donne and Milton]"
  • "La cosmovisión Isabelina"@es
  • "The Elizabethan world picture"
  • "The Elizabethan world picture"@en
  • "The Elizabethan world picture"@pt
  • "The Elizabethan World picture"
  • "The Elizabethan world picture : [a study of the idea of order in the age of Shakespeare, Donne and Milton]"
  • "The Elizabethan world picture : [a study of the idea of order in the age of Shakespeare, Donne and Milton]"@en
  • "La cosmovisión isabelina"
  • "The Elizabethan : world picture"
  • "The Elizabethan world picture, by E. M. W. Tillyard"

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