David Morse

England's Time of Crisis: From Shakespeare to Milton

A Cultural History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Many events of the divided society from Elizabeth I to Charles I were taken as an unmistakable sign that the world was entering its last days. This text shows how pervasive was this pessimistic mood and how powerfully it affected English writing from Shakespeare to Milton.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-09772-2
• 1st ed. 1989
• Seitenzahl: 391
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781349097722
• ISBN-10: 1349097721
• Artikelnr.: 44458681

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: England's time of crisis; this luckless kingdom; the corrupted Church; London - the corrupted city; the corrupted Court; the corrupted world; a great hazard - the coming of Civl War. Part 2: Shakespeare and the crisis of authority; counterfeit representations - tragedy at the Stuart Court; the private world of Donne, Burton and Browne; the public world of Clarendon, Hobbes and Milton.