Elizabethan Humanism: Literature and Learning in the Later Sixteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780582289802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str.

Allan Pincombe; Michael Pincombe; Mike Pincombe

Opis

This work is an account of Elizabethan humanism, dedicated to the Elizabethan period of Renaissance writing. It offers a new approach to the topic by using records of the words humanity and humanist to establish an understanding of the word humanism.

Spis treści

PART 1: CONTEXTS  Chapter 1: Elizabethan Humanism  Chapter 2: Ciceronian 'Humanitas'  Chapter 3: Humanists and Humanitians  Chapter 4: The Translation of Humanity: Thomas Smith and Roger Ascham  Chapter 5: The Arch-Humanist: Gabriel Harvey  PART 2: TEXTS  Chapter 6: Pregnant wit: John Lyly's Euphes: 'The Anatomy of Wit' 
Chapter 7: Pastoral Rudeness: Edmund Spenser's 'The Shepherd's Calendar'  Chapter 8: The Companion of the camps: Sir Phillip Sidney's 'An Apology for Poetry'  Chapter 9: Divinity, Adieu: Christopher Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus'  Chapter 10: Imitations of Humanity: William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'

O autorze

Michael Pincombe