Writing on the Renaissance Stage

Writing on the Renaissance Stage

Author: Frederick Kiefer

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9780874135954

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Playwrights also made extraordinary use of metaphors involving the written and printed word to describe the workings of the mind and the interaction of people.


The Adages of Erasmus

The Adages of Erasmus

Author: Érasme

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9780802048745

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This annotated selection of 116 proverbs, which includes all the longer essays, is based on the translation in the Collected Works of Erasmus."--BOOK JACKET.


Ciceronian Controversies

Ciceronian Controversies

Author: JoAnn DellaNeva

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780674025202

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The main literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those Neo-Latin writers favoring Cicero alone as the apotheosis of Latin prose against those following an eclectic array of literary models. This Ciceronian controversy pervades the texts and letters collected for the first time in this volume.


English Renaissance Rhetoric and Poetics

English Renaissance Rhetoric and Poetics

Author: Heinrich F Plett

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-08-14

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9004617183

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This comprehensive bibliography lists some 500 source texts published in the British Isles or abroad from 1479 to 1660 and more than 2,000 works of secondary literature from 1900 to the present.


Praise of Folly

Praise of Folly

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

Publisher: Alma Classics

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781847490100

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A Companion to Erasmus

A Companion to Erasmus

Author: Eric M. MacPhail

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-02-13

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9004539689

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The authors strive to illuminate every aspect of Erasmus’ life, work, and legacy while providing an expert synthesis of the most inspiring research in the field. There is no volume to compare or to compete with this compendium of all Erasmian knowledge.


Renaissance Cultural Crossroads

Renaissance Cultural Crossroads

Author: Sara K. Barker

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9004241841

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The importance of 'Renaissance Cultural Crossroads' lies in its appreciation and promotion of the multi-faceted reach of translation in Britain from the arrival of printing until the the outbreak of the civil war, highlighting the impressive number and wide variety of works translated.


Grief and English Renaissance Elegy

Grief and English Renaissance Elegy

Author: G. W. Pigman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1985-02-28

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0521268710

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Explores the changing attitude of sixteenth century poets towards funeral poems.