The Elizabethan World Picture

London, UK: Chatto & Windus. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1943. First Edition; Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Shows SCATTERED PENCIL UNDERLING; ONE PAGE SHOWS A COUPLE CHECK MARKS IN RED INK AND ANOTHER SOME UNDERLINING IN RED PENCIL; Else, Very Good: shows light rubbing to the extremities; the front board is slightly bowed; a fromer owner's name neatly inscribed in small script at the upper corner of the front free endpaper; the binding is square and secure. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. A good used reader's copy, structurally sound and tightly bound. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.85 X 5.65 X 0.65 inches) . Language: English. Weight: 9 punces. First Edition (1943) ; Fifth Printing (1950) . Brown cloth over boards with gilt titles at the backstrip. Hardback: Lacks DJ. Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard OBE (1889 – 1962) was an English classical and literary scholar who was Master of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1945 to 1959. He is known mainly for this book 'The Elizabethan World Picture' , as background to Elizabethan literature, particularly Shakespeare, and for his works on John Milton. He is credited with having put forward the view that Elizabethan literature is not representative of "a brief period of humanism between two outbreaks of Protestantism" (the English Reformation and the Thirty Years' War) , but rather representative of a theological bond in England that allowed for a continuation of the medieval view of World Order. His historical scholarship and contextual analysis informed the study of 16th-century literature for generations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; vii, 108 pages. pages .