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Writing on the Renaissance Stage
Frederick Kiefer
其他書名
Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books
出版University of Delaware Press, 1996
主題Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603)History / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714)Language Arts & Disciplines / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Books & ReadingLiterary Criticism / DramaPerforming Arts / Theater / GeneralPerforming Arts / Theater / History & Criticism
ISBN08741359589780874135954
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wekDP160ZKIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋As people turned increasingly to the written and printed word for instruction and inspiration, they spoke of their lives in language generated by the print shop, library, and study. Conceiving of their experience in terms of writing and printing, they employed metaphoric books when they envisioned abstractions. They spoke, for example, of the books of conscience, nature, and fate. Such metaphors allowed people to organize conceptually the diversity and unruliness' of everyday life. Metaphoric books are the focus of this study's final section. Particular attention is given to the book of conscience in Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness and George Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois; the book of nature in Shakespeare's As You Like It and Pericles; and the book of fate in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi.