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Author | : John S. Mebane |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780803281790 |
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For all their pride in seeing this world clearly, the thinkers and artists of the English Renaissance were also fascinated by magic and the occult. The three greatest playwrights of the period devoted major plays (The Tempest, Doctor Faustus, The Alchemist) to magic, Francis Bacon often referred to it, and it was ever-present in the visual arts. In Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age John S. Mebane reevaluates the significance of occult philosophy in Renaissance thought and literature, constructing the most detailed historical context for his subject yet attempted.
Author | : Jane Gilmer |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2021-05-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004449426 |
Download The Alchemical Actor Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Alchemical Actor – Performing the Great Work: Imagining Alchemical Theatre offers an imagination for an alchemical theatre inspired by the directives of Antonin Artaud.
Author | : Gary Tomlinson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226807928 |
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Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy. Renaissance music also suggested a form of universal knowledge through renewed interest in two ancient themes: the Pythagorean and Platonic "harmony of the celestial spheres" and the legendary effects of the music of bards like Orpheus, Arion, and David. In this climate, Renaissance philosophers drew many new and provocative connections between music and the occult sciences. In Music in Renaissance Magic, Gary Tomlinson describes some of these connections and offers a fresh view of the development of early modern thought in Italy. Raising issues essential to postmodern historiography—issues of cultural distance and our relationship to the others who inhabit our constructions of the past —Tomlinson provides a rich store of ideas for students of early modern culture, for musicologists, and for historians of philosophy, science, and religion. "A scholarly step toward a goal that many composers have aimed for: to rescue the idea of New Age Music—that music can promote spiritual well-being—from the New Ageists who have reduced it to a level of sonic wallpaper."—Kyle Gann, Village Voice "An exemplary piece of musical and intellectual history, of interest to all students of the Renaissance as well as musicologists. . . . The author deserves congratulations for introducing this new approach to the study of Renaissance music."—Peter Burke, NOTES "Gary Tomlinson's Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others examines the 'otherness' of magical cosmology. . . . [A] passionate, eloquently melancholy, and important book."—Anne Lake Prescott, Studies in English Literature
Author | : Jim Pearce |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2022-11-29 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 164014143X |
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Essays on a wide range of topics including the role of early modern chess in upholding Aristotelian virtue; readings of Sidney, Wroth, Spenser, and Shakespeare; and several topics involving the New World.
Author | : Northrop Frye |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 857 |
Release | : 2018-08-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1487532105 |
Download Northrop Frye's Writings on Shakespeare and the Renaissance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of Northrop Frye's writings on Shakespeare and the Renaissance spans forty years of his career as a university teacher, public critic, and major theorist of literature and its cultural functions. Extensive annotations and an in-depth critical introduction demonstrate Frye's wide-ranging knowledge of Renaissance culture, the pivotal place of the Renaissance in his oeuvre, his impact on Renaissance criticism and on the Stratford Festival, and his continuing importance as a literary theorist. This volume brings together Frye's extensive writings on Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers (excluding Milton, who is featured in other volumes), and includes major articles, introductions, public lectures, and four previously published books on Shakespeare. Frye's insightful analyses offer not just a formidable knowledge of Renaissance culture but also a transformative experience, moving the reader imaginatively towards an experience of created reality.
Author | : Corinne J. Saunders |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843842211 |
Download Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"This study looks at a wide range of medieval Englisih romance texts, including the works of Chaucer and Malory, from a broad cultural perspective, to show that while they employ magic in order to create exotic, escapist worlds, they are also grounded in a sense of possibility, and reflect a complex web of inherited and current ideas." --Book Jacket.
Author | : Lynda Walsh |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2013-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199857113 |
Download Scientists as Prophets Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Scientists as Prophets, Lynda Walsh argues that our science advisors manufacture certainty for us in the face of the unknown. Through a series of cases reaching from the Delphic oracle to seventeenth-century London to Climategate, Walsh elucidates many of the problems with our current science-advising system.
Author | : Alexander Leggatt |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1999-08-21 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780719049651 |
Download Introduction To English Renaissance Comedy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline comedy, covering both public and private theatres, emphasizing the eclectic, experimental nature of this comedy--its departures from the mainstream New Comedy tradition and its searching, witty analysis of social and personal relations in court, city and country. In his close analysis of some of the richest comedies of the period, Alexander Leggatt makes some unexpected connections between them. The reader is given a comprehensive picture of English comedy in one of its most creative periods.
Author | : Vaughan Hart |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2002-03-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134876793 |
Download Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Spanning from the inauguration of James I in 1603 to the execution of Charles I in 1649, the Stuart court saw the emergence of a full expression of Renaissance culture in Britain. Hart examines the influence of magic on Renaissance art and how in its role as an element of royal propaganda, art was used to represent the power of the monarch and reflect his apparent command over the hidden forces of nature. Court artists sought to represent magic as an expression of the Stuart Kings' divine right, and later of their policy of Absolutism, through masques, sermons, heraldry, gardens, architecture and processions. As such, magic of the kind enshrined in Neoplatonic philosophy and the court art which expressed its cosmology, played their part in the complex causes of the Civil War and the destruction of the Stuart image which followed in its wake.
Author | : Martina Zamparo |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2022-10-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 303105167X |
Download Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeare’s last plays, The Winter’s Tale. A perusal of the vast literary and iconographic repertory of Renaissance alchemy reveals that this late play is imbued with several topoi, myths, and emblematic symbols coming from coeval alchemical, Paracelsian, and Hermetic sources. It also discusses the alchemical significance of water and time in the play’s circular and regenerative pattern and the healing role of women. All the major symbols of alchemy are present in Shakespeare’s play: the intertwined serpents of the caduceus, the chemical wedding, the filius philosophorum, and the so-called rex chymicus. This book also provides an in-depth survey of late Renaissance alchemy, Paracelsian medicine, and Hermetic culture in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. Importantly, it contends that The Winter’s Tale, in symbolically retracing the healing pattern of the rota alchemica and in emphasising the Hermetic principles of unity and concord, glorifies King James’s conciliatory attitude.