Word: elizabethanism
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Alfred B. Harbage, Henry B. and Ann M. Cabot Professor of English Literature, who teaches English 124, will take a leave next Fall to write the volume on Elizabethan drama for the Oxford History of English Literature...
...emphasized that individual volumes of the history have come out over a period of 20 years. He felt that he would be through with the Elizabethan drama volume in about four years...
...stepped out of Sidney's Arcadia. But even if you have dutifully read the appropriate criticism, unraveled the separate strands of Renaissance thought, gotten up the puns, you still won't resonate to everything in the play--or at least, not the first time--simply because you aren't Elizabethan...
...minded and dismayingly conformist. Confined to a New Orleans hospital throughout the ordeal of President Kennedy's assassination and burial, he sensed that the whole nation shared something akin to "a schoolboy's innocent guilt." But White felt that the U.S. today is "something like a modern Elizabethan England" and concluded that "people who live in Renaissances are apt to live with violence." By the end of his three month visit, he had become "an addict to America-worse than alcohol...
...name were not attached to The Taming of the Shrew, the play would doubtless be gathering dust. Ranking near the bottom of the canon, this early potboiler is a paltry piece of work. Shakespeare very likely cooked up this bit of woman-baiting to appeal to the myriad Elizabethan fans of bear-baiting. Only the S.P.C.A. came out ahead...