Robert Greene''s Planetomachia (1585)

Zusatztext '...Das has produced a meticulous full-dress scholarly text... Overall this is an excellent edition! and will be much welcomed by scholars of Greene's work! Elizabethan prose fiction! and Renaissance astrology.' Notes and Queries Informationen zum Autor Nandini Das is Lecturer in Renaissance English Literature at the University of Liverpool! UK. Klappentext Offers introductory material (on biographical! literary and scientific contexts) and annotation identifying Greene's allusions and elucidating his vocabulary. This book includes translations and extracts! along with a bibliography of relevant primary texts and critical work on Greene generally and on "Planetomachia" in particular. Zusammenfassung Offers introductory material (on biographical, literary and scientific contexts) and annotation identifying Greene's allusions and elucidating his vocabulary. This book includes translations and extracts, along with a bibliography of relevant primary texts and critical work on Greene generally and on "Planetomachia" in particular. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Critical introduction; The text; Commentary; List of emendations; Variants between Greene's 'Dialogue' and Pontano's Aegidius Dialogus; Word division; Sources and translations; Selected bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Nandini Das
• Assisted by: Nandini Das (Editor), Das Nandini (Editor)
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2007
• EAN: 9780754656616
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-5661-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity; Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; SCIENCE / Essays, Literary essays, Astronomy, space & time, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Astronomy, space and time, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy