The Strong Necessity of Time: The Philosophy of Time in Shakespeare and Elizabethan Literature

by G. F. Waller

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789027932549
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	01/01/1976
Series:	De Proprietatibus Litterarum. Series Practica , #90
Edition description:	Reprint 2019
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.45(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Frontmatter — TABLE OF CONTENTS — Preface — A Note on Editions Used — PART ONE: INTRODUCTION — I. Time and the Elizabethans — II. "From Tymes and Moments to Eternitie": the Medieval Tradition — III. "Subject to Change and Unconquered": the Impact of New Philosophy — PART TWO: THREE LATE ELIZABETHANS — IV. "The Pillours of Eternity": Mutability in Spenser — V. Sir Walter Ralegh and "the consuming disease of time" . — VI. John Donne's Changing Attitude to Time — PART THREE: SHAKESPEARE — VII. "In Divers Paces with Divers Persons" - Time in Shakespeare's Early Works — VIII. "The Rough Torrent of Occasion" - Mutability in Shakespeare's Political World — IX. "Things in Motion" - The Time-Worlds of Troilus and Cressida and Antony and Cleopatra — X. "Time will Venom Breed" - Time and Tragedy in Macbeth and Hamlet — XI. "The Great Gods" - Time, Tragedy, and Providence in King Lear — XII. "Both Joy and Terror " - Time and Providence in The Winter's Tale and The Tempest — Conclusion — Bibliographical Note — Index of names