Author: Arthur Dee
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815309260
Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary on The Comedy of Errors that is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.
Fasciculus Chemicus
Author: Arthur Dee
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815309260
Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary on The Comedy of Errors that is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815309260
Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary on The Comedy of Errors that is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.
Emblems and Alchemy
Author: Alison Adams
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9780852616802
Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9780852616802
Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
Author: Martina Zamparo
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303105167X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303105167X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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.
Darke Hierogliphicks
Author: Stanton J. Linden
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813182875
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern authors has been overlooked. Stanton Linden now provides the first comprehensive examination of this influence on English literature from the late Middle Ages through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing extensively on alchemical allusions as well as on the practical and theoretical background of the art and its pictorial tradition, Linden demonstrates the pervasiveness of interest in alchemy during this three-hundred-year period. Most writers—including Langland, Gower, Barclay, Eramus, Sidney, Greene, Lyly, and Shakespeare—were familiar with alchemy, and references to it appear in a wide range of genres. Yet the purposes it served in literature from Chaucer through Jonson were narrowly satirical. In literature of the seventeenth century, especially in the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton, the functions of alchemy changed. Focusing on Bacon, Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton—in addition to Jonson and Butler—Linden demonstrates the emergence of new attitudes and innovative themes, motifs, images, and ideas. The use of alchemy to suggest spiritual growth and change, purification, regeneration, and millenarian ideas reflected important new emphases in alchemical, medical, and occultist writing. This new tradition did not continue, however, and Butler's return to satire was contextualized in the antagonism of the Royal Society and religious Latitudinarians to philosophical enthusiasm and the occult. Butler, like Shadwell and Swift, expanded the range of satirical victims to include experimental scientists as well as occult charlatans. The literary uses of alchemy thus reveal the changing intellectual milieus of three centuries.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813182875
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern authors has been overlooked. Stanton Linden now provides the first comprehensive examination of this influence on English literature from the late Middle Ages through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing extensively on alchemical allusions as well as on the practical and theoretical background of the art and its pictorial tradition, Linden demonstrates the pervasiveness of interest in alchemy during this three-hundred-year period. Most writers—including Langland, Gower, Barclay, Eramus, Sidney, Greene, Lyly, and Shakespeare—were familiar with alchemy, and references to it appear in a wide range of genres. Yet the purposes it served in literature from Chaucer through Jonson were narrowly satirical. In literature of the seventeenth century, especially in the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton, the functions of alchemy changed. Focusing on Bacon, Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton—in addition to Jonson and Butler—Linden demonstrates the emergence of new attitudes and innovative themes, motifs, images, and ideas. The use of alchemy to suggest spiritual growth and change, purification, regeneration, and millenarian ideas reflected important new emphases in alchemical, medical, and occultist writing. This new tradition did not continue, however, and Butler's return to satire was contextualized in the antagonism of the Royal Society and religious Latitudinarians to philosophical enthusiasm and the occult. Butler, like Shadwell and Swift, expanded the range of satirical victims to include experimental scientists as well as occult charlatans. The literary uses of alchemy thus reveal the changing intellectual milieus of three centuries.
A.C
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Jean D'Espagnet's The Summary of Physics Restored
Author: Jean D'Espagnet
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429575556
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Published in 1999: This book is about Alchemy, Philosophy and Science during the 17th century written by the author originally published in 1650.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429575556
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Published in 1999: This book is about Alchemy, Philosophy and Science during the 17th century written by the author originally published in 1650.
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books (etc.)
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature: D-G
Author: Samuel Halkett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A Select Bibliography of Chemistry, 1492-1892
Author: Henry Carrington Bolton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description