Wit's Treasury : Renaissance England and the Classics /

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As England entered the Renaissance and as humanism, with its focus on classical literature and philosophy, informed the educational system, English intellectuals engaged in a concerted effort to remake the culture, language, manners-indeed, the whole national style-through adapting the classics. But...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Orgel, Stephen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Temas:
Classical literature > Appreciation > England.
Classicism > England.
English literature > Classical influences.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Renaissance > England.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.
Ben Jonson.
Blank verse.
Christopher Marlowe.
Classical translation.
Classicism.
Edmund Spenser.
Elizabethan drama.
English classicists.
Renaissance England.
Renaissance Humanism.
William Shakespeare.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Quotations
  • Chapter 1. Classicizing England
  • Chapter 2. The Uses of Prosody
  • Chapter 3. The Sound of Classical
  • Chapter 4. What Classical Looks Like
  • Chapter 5. From Black Letter to Roman
  • Chapter 6. Staging the Classical
  • Chapter 7. Looking Backward
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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