Wit's treasury: Renaissance England and the classics
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Main Author: Orgel, Stephen 1933- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2021]
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Links:https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812299878
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812299878
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812299878
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812299878
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812299878
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812299878
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812299878
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812299878
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812299878
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812299878
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812299878
Abstract:"The title Wit's Treasury alludes to Francis Meres's Palladis Tamia: Wits Treasury; Being the Second Part of Wits Commonwealth, published in 1598. The book has become famous for its early appreciation of Shakespeare, but its relevance to this project is its assumption that the way to praise contemporary English literature was by comparing it with that of Greece and Rome through a "comparative discourse," Elizabethan England is declared part of Palladis Tamia, the treasure house of Pallas Athena. Tamia may also include a pun on the name of the river Thames, so an alternative title would be Athena's Thames. The parallel with the classics was repeatedly invoked in the period, but it was neither simple nor without ambivalence. Wit's Treasury examines that parallel and its complexity"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 192 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9780812299878
DOI:10.9783/9780812299878

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