Voices of Melancholy: Studies in Literary Treatments of Melancholy in Renaissance England

by Bridget Gellert Lyons

Book Overview

This book begins with a background on expository books about melancholy in the Renaissance with chapters on the literary uses of melancholy, Marston and melancholy, Melancholy and Hamlet, and the anatomy of melancholy as literature. When Shakespeare, Burton and other Renaissance writers gave melancholy the complex meanings and associations it has in their work, they were drawing on a tradition that had been developing throughout classical antiquity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393007553
• ISBN13: 9780393007558
• Release Date: February 1975
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

I did read the book and it is very good!

This is a masterful short review of the influence of melancholy in early modern literature. The topic is fascinating, and the author discusses it with clarity and elegance. ...

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