Beschreibung:
This illuminating account of ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan Age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne and Milton, among many others
PREFACE, One. INTRODUCTORY, Two. ORDER, Three. SIN, Four. THE CHAIN OF BEING, Five. THE LINKS IN THE CHAIN, Six. THE CORRESPONDING PLANES, Seven. THE CORRESPONDENCES, Eight. THE COSMIC DANCE, Nine. EPILOGUE, NOTES, INDEX