The Elizabethan World View

The Elizabethan World View

This title is taken from E. M. W. Tillyard’s book, which is an attempt to describe the way Shakespeare’s contemporaries viewed the universe. A different view of the universe implies a different way of understanding events, characters, language—just about everything. If we can understand Shakespeare’s world better, we can begin to understand him and his work better.

The Humours

The Macrocosm and Microcosm