Elizabethan Humanism: Literature and Learning in the Later Sixteenth Century by Pincombe, Michael

Elizabethan Humanism: Literature and Learning in the Later Sixteenth Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780582289802)

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Elizabethan Humanism: Literature and Learning in the Later Sixteenth Century by Pincombe, Michael

Elizabethan Humanism: Literature and Learning in the Later Sixteenth Century

$59.95
Elizabethan Humanism: Literature and Learning in the Later Sixteenth Century by Pincombe, Michael

Elizabethan Humanism: Literature and Learning in the Later Sixteenth Century

$59.95
Format: Paperback
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The term 'humanist' originally referred to a scholar of Classical literature. In the Renaissance and particularly in the Elizabethan age, European intellectuals devoted themselves to the rediscovery and study of Roman and Greek literature and culture. This trend of Renaissance thought became known in the 19th century as 'humanism'. Often a difficult concept to understand, the term Elizabethan Humanism is introduced in Part One and explained in a number of different contexts. Part Two illustrates how knowledge of humanism allows a clearer understanding of Elizabethan literature, by looking closely at major texts of the Elizabethan period which include Spenser's, 'The Shepherd's Calendar'; Marlowe's 'Faustus' and Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.

Author: Michael Pincombe
ISBN-10: 0582289807
ISBN-13: 9780582289802
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/09/2001
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.28h x 4.88w x 0.57d
By Michael Pincombe
By Michael Pincombe
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Mike Pincombe teaches English Literature at the University of Newcastle. He has written widely on Elizabethan literature

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