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03001aam a2200469 i 4500 001 DA358766EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220617010046 008 210107s2021 paua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2021000701 020 $a 0812253272 020 $a 9780812253276 035 $a (OCoLC)1232015131 040 $a PU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d VTU $d OBE $d MUU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR428.C6 $b O74 2021 082 00 $a 820.9/003 $2 23 100 1 $a Orgel, Stephen, $e author. 245 10 $a Wit's treasury : $b Renaissance England and the classics / $c Stephen Orgel. 264 1 $a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : $b University of Pennsylvania Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xi, 192 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 177 - 183) and index. 505 0 $a Classicizing England -- The uses of prosody -- The sound of classical -- What classical looks like -- From black letter to Roman -- Staging the classical -- Looking backward. 648 7 $a 1500-1700 $2 fast 650 0 $a English literature $y Early modern, 1500-1700 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English literature $x Classical influences. 650 0 $a Classical literature $x Appreciation $z England. 650 0 $a Classicism $z England. 650 0 $a Renaissance $z England. 650 7 $a Classical literature $x Appreciation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00863510 650 7 $a Classicism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00863557 650 7 $a English literature $x Classical influences. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00912025 650 7 $a English literature $x Early modern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710960 650 7 $a Renaissance. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01094518 651 7 $a England. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01219920 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Orgel, Stephen. $t Wit's treasury. $d Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021] $z 9780812299878 $w (OCoLC)1262370643 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023212.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DA358766EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search