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Author:
Orgel, Stephen, author.
Title:
Wit's treasury : Renaissance England and the classics / Stephen Orgel.
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xi, 192 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Subject:
1500-1700
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
English literature--Classical influences.
Classical literature--Appreciation--England.
Classicism--England.
Renaissance--England.
Classical literature--Appreciation.
Classicism.
English literature--Classical influences.
English literature--Early modern.
Renaissance.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177 - 183) and index.
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.
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.
ISBN:
0812253272
9780812253276
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1232015131
LCCN:
2021000701
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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