Renaissance minds and their fictions : Cusanus, Sidney, Shakespeare / Ronald Levao
1985, 1st Edition. London: University of California Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #447415
ISBN: 0520052757
Physical description: 446 pages. Notes: Includes index.
In English. Contents: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Introduction to Part One -- 1. Learned Ignorance -- 2. Controversy and the Art of Conjecture -- 3. Proteus and the Vision of God -- Introduction to Part Two -- 4. Italian Renaissance Criticism -- 5. Sidney's Feigned Apology -- 6. Astrophil's Poetics -- Introduction to Chapters 7 and 8: Sidney's Two Arcadias -- 7. The Old Arcadia -- 8. The New Arcadia -- Introduction to Part Three -- 9. Play and Earnest -- 10. The First Tetralogy -- 11. The Substance of Richard II -- 12. " King of Infinite Space'': Hamlet and His Fictions -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index. Subjects: Nicholas of Cusa, Cardinal 1401-1464. Sidney, Philip 1554-1586 Criticism and interpretation. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Criticism and interpretation. Nicholas of Cusa, Cardinal 1401-1464. Sidney, Philip 1554-1586 Criticism and interpretation. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Criticism and interpretation. Sidney, Philip Sir Criticism and interpretation. Nicholas of Cusa, Cardinal 1401-1464. Sidney, Philip 1554-1586 Criticism and interpretation. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Criticism and interpretation. Nicholas of Cusa, Cardinal 1401-1464 Criticism and interpretation.
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