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Elizabethan humanism : literature and learning in the later sixteenth century / Mike Pincombe.

Van Pelt Library PR428.H8 P66 2001
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pincombe, Michael.
Contributor:
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Longman medieval and Renaissance library
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
English literature.
Humanism in literature.
Humanism.
History.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--16th century.
Great Britain.
Intellectual life.
Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603.
Humanism--England--History--16th century.
England.
Physical Description:
x, 214 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Harlow, England ; New York : Longman, 2001.
Contents:
Part 1 Contexts 1
Chapter 1. Elizabethan Humanism 3
Humanity may have a threefold sense 4
Humanity, literature and learning 9
Chapter 2. Ciceronian Humanitas 15
De officiis: Humanity and bestiality 15
Pro Archia poeta: Humanity and poetry 19
De oratore (1) Curious universal scholarship 22
De oratore (2) Wit and pleasant vein 29
De oratore (3) The humane voice 32
Chapter 3. Humanists and Humanitians 37
Curious universal scholars 37
Literary humanism: grammarians and men of letters 44
Courtly humanists (1) Abraham Fleming 48
Courtly humanists (2) George Puttenham 51
Courtly humanists (3) Gabriel Harvey 53
Chapter 4. The Translation of Humanity: Thomas Smith and Roger Ascham 58
Sir Thomas Smith and the translatio humanitatis 59
Roger Ascham: Ciceronian and Valerian humanitas 66
The Schoolmaster: Courtiers and barbarians 72
Chapter 5. The Arch-humanist: Gabriel Harvey 84
The Cambridge scholar 85
The scholar in civil conversation 91
The scholar in courtly conversation 96
The scholar as ruffian 100
Part 2 Texts 105
Chapter 6. Pregnant Wit: John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit 107
Lyly's Euphues and Ascham's Euphues 108
The prodigal scholar 111
Humanity and divinity 114
Humanity and severity 117
Chapter 7. Pastoral Rudeness: Edmund Spenser's The Shepherd's Calendar 125
Rudeness: pastoral and rustical 126
Shepherds and clowns 130
Pan and Apollo: the 'June' eclogue 133
Pan and Eliza: the 'April' eclogue 138
Chapter 8. The Companion of the Camps: Sir Philip Sidney's An Apology for Poetry 144
Poetry, humanity and divinity 145
Courtiers and professors 148
Honest King Arthur 150
Bastard poets 156
Chapter 9. Divinity, Adieu: Christopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus 160
Divinity and magic 161
Marlowe and Musaeus 166
Faustus and Paris 169
Chapter 10. Imitations of Humanity: William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 176
Hamlet the humanist 177
Hamlet the avenger 182
Hamlet the Dane 188.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index.
ISBN:
0582289807
OCLC:
48223113

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