Wit's treasury : renaissance England and the classics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orgel, Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--Appreciation--England.

Classical literature.

Classicism--England.

Classicism.

English literature--Classical influences.

English literature.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Renaissance--England.

Renaissance.

England.

Genre:

Critiques litteraires.

Literary criticism.

Literary criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Classicizing England

The uses of prosody

The sound of classical

What classical looks like

From black letter to Roman

Staging the classical

Looking backward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780812299878

0812299876

OCLC:

1262370643