England's time of crisis : from Shakespeare to Milton : a cultural history
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England's time of crisis : from Shakespeare to Milton : a cultural history
Macmillan, 1989
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Includes index
Bibliography: p. 377-387
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Description
England from Elizabeth I to Charles I was a divided and perpetually anxious society that had to face up to external invasion in the Spanish Armada, to the threat of internal subversion in the gunpowder plot and ultimately to the prospect of Civil War. Yet the controversialists of the new print culture found much else that gave cause for concern: the failure to bring about a full reformation of the English Church; the growth of London as a centre of entertainment and pleasure; the profligate patronage of the court. Tempests, earthquakes, disastrous harvests, the plague - all these were taken as an unmistakable sign that the world was entering its last days. In this work, David Morse shows how pervasive was this pessimistic mood and how powerfully it affected English writing from Shakespeare to Milton. Other books by David Morse include "Motown and the Arrival of Black Music", "Perspectives on Romanticism", "Romanticism" and "American Romanticism" (in two volumes).
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.
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