Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers
by Henry Green
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About this eBook
- Author
- Green, Henry, 1801-1873
- Title
- Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers an exposition of their similarities of throught and expression, preceded by a view of emblem-literature down to A.D. 1616
- Credits
- Produced by KD Weeks, Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Emblems in literature
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 50006
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50006
- Release Date
- September 19, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SHAKESPEARE AND THE EMBLEM WRITERS.
- 2.PHOTO-LITH PLATES.
- 3.CHAPTER I. EMBLEMS, AND THEIR VARIETIES, WITH SOME EARLY EXAMPLES.
- 4.CHAPTER II. SKETCH OF EMBLEM-BOOK LITERATURE PREVIOUS TO A.D. 1616. — Section I. EXTENT OF THE EMBLEM LITERATURE TO WHICH SHAKESPEARE MIGHT HAVE HAD ACCESS. — Section II. EMBLEM WORKS AND EDITIONS DOWN TO THE END OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. — Section III. OTHER EMBLEM WORKS AND EDITIONS BETWEEN A.D. 1500 AND 1564. — — — — Section IV. EMBLEM WORKS AND EDITIONS BETWEEN A.D. 1564 AND A.D. 1616. — —
- 5.CHAPTER III. SHAKESPEARE’S ATTAINMENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES WITH RESPECT TO THE FINE ARTS.
- 6.CHAPTER IV. THE KNOWLEDGE OF EMBLEM-BOOKS IN BRITAIN, AND GENERAL INDICATIONS THAT SHAKESPEARE WAS ACQUAINTED WITH THEM.
- 7.CHAPTER V. SIX DIRECT REFERENCES IN THE PERICLES TO BOOKS OF EMBLEMS, SOME OF THEIR DEVICES DESCRIBED, AND OF THEIR MOTTOES QUOTED.
- 8.CHAPTER VI. CLASSIFICATION OF THE CORRESPONDENCIES AND PARALLELISMS OF SHAKESPEARE WITH EMBLEM WRITERS. — Section I. HISTORICAL EMBLEMS. — Section II. HERALDIC EMBLEMS, OR EMBLEMS APPLIED TO HERALDRY. — Section III. EMBLEMS FOR MYTHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS. — Section IV. EMBLEMS ILLUSTRATIVE OF FABLES. — Section V. EMBLEMS IN CONNEXION WITH PROVERBS. — Section VI. EMBLEMS FROM FACTS IN NATURE, AND FROM THE PROPERTIES OF ANIMALS. — Section VII. EMBLEMS FOR POETIC IDEAS. — Section VIII. MORAL AND ÆSTHETIC EMBLEMS.
- 9.CHAPTER VII. MISCELLANEOUS EMBLEMS; RECAPITULATION, AND CONCLUSION.
- 10. — I. — II. — III.
- 11.Untitled
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