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Elizabethan humanism : literature and learning in the later sixteenth century / Mike Pincombe.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR428.H8 P66 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pincombe, Michael.
- 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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