England's Time of Crisis: From Shakespeare to Milton: A Cultural History

by David Morse

Overview

Many events of the divided society from Elizabeth I to Charles I were taken as an unmistakable sign that the world was entering its last days. This text shows how pervasive was this pessimistic mood and how powerfully it affected English writing from Shakespeare to Milton.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349097722
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1989
Edition description:	1st ed. 1989
Pages:	391
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part 1: England's time of crisis; this luckless kingdom; the corrupted Church; London - the corrupted city; the corrupted Court; the corrupted world; a great hazard - the coming of Civl War. Part 2: Shakespeare and the crisis of authority; counterfeit representations - tragedy at the Stuart Court; the private world of Donne, Burton and Browne; the public world of Clarendon, Hobbes and Milton.