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Title: WIT''S TREASURY
RENAISSANCE ENGLAND AND THE CLASSICS
By: Stephen Orgel
Format: Hardback

List price: £36.00
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ISBN 10: 0812253272
ISBN 13: 9780812253276
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Pub. date: 6 August, 2021
Pages: 216
Description: In Wit''s Treasury, Stephen Orgel, one of our foremost interpreters of Renaissance literature and culture, charts how the conflict between Christian principles and classical manners and morals yielded the rich creative tension out of which emerged an unprecedented flowering of English drama, lyric, and the arts.
Illustrations: 44 bw halftones
Returns: Non-returnable
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