Monday, 8 October 2018

The Elizabethan World Picture

What was the worldview that lay behind Shakespeare's plays and Elizabethan literature as a whole? The classical scholar E.M.W Tillyard wrote a book exploring ideas that were frequently referred to in poetry and drama of the time but then rather faded into obscurity as the scientific revolution gathered pace. See link below.

Albion Awakening

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