The Cultural Achievement (v. 2) (The Elizabethan Renaissance)

Rowe Dr. Alfred, Lestie:

ISBN 10: 0351180680 / ISBN 13: 9780351180682

Published by Cardinal Books, 1974

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416 Seiten; Cardinal - 1st. 1974 : Dr. Alfred Lestie Rowse - tb MI-PB7I-ZLUC Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cultural Achievement (v. 2) (The Elizabethan Renaissance)
• Publisher: Cardinal Books
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0351180680
• ISBN 13: 9780351180682
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 500 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Bücher

About this title

Synopsis

In The Cultural Achievement, Mr. Rowse chronicles the astonishingly rich cultural flowering that marked the reign of Elizabeth I. He brings vividly to life the age's poetry, painting, sculpture, minor arts, and, above all, the tightly knit world of the theatre, in which a community of playwrights and actors worked with and sometimes against each other. He devotes individual chapters to the masters of Elizabethan music: Byrd, Dowland, Weelkes, Gibbons, and their followers, and to the science of the English Renaissance, with discussions of Gilbert's great work on magnetism and Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood.

About the Author

A. L. Rowse, who died in 1997, was an historian and man of letters, poet, biographer, and essayist. He explored the British experience in more than twenty books, including major biographies of Shakespeare and Marlowe. He is also the author of The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Cultural Achievement.