Wit's Treasury : : Renaissance England and the Classics / / Stephen Orgel.
As England entered the Renaissance and as humanism, with its focus on classical literature and philosophy, informed the educational system, English intellectuals engaged in a concerted effort to remake the culture, language, manners—indeed, the whole national style—through adapting the classics. But...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Quotations
- Chapter 1. Classicizing England
- Chapter 2. The Uses of Prosody
- Chapter 3. The Sound of Classical
- Chapter 4. What Classical Looks Like
- Chapter 5. From Black Letter to Roman
- Chapter 6. Staging the Classical
- Chapter 7. Looking Backward
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index