The Elizabethan Renaissance: the cultural achievement

A.L. ROWSE

ISBN 10: 0333137884 / ISBN 13: 9780333137888

Published by Macmillan, New York, NY, USA, 1972

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Very good condition. Light wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Dust jacket in good condition with moderate wear, small tears, chips and rubbing present. DJ has been laminated by a previous owner. Pictures available upon request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Elizabethan Renaissance: the cultural achievement
• Publisher: Macmillan, New York, NY, USA
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333137884
• ISBN 13: 9780333137888
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
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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.