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The Later Renaissance

by David Hannay

Level C1 · AdvancedHistorical16 chapters
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About this book

Explore the vibrant flowering of European literature during the later sixteenth century, with a keen focus on Spain’s unique Golden Age of art, war, and letters, while tracing the era’s cultural overlaps and national distinctions.

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16 chapters in all. The first chapter is free to read with no account.

02CONTENTS.
03CHAPTER I. THE LATER RENAISSANCE IN SPAIN.
04CHAPTER II. THE SPANISH LEARNED POETS.
05CHAPTER III. THE GROWTH AND DECADENCE OF THE SPANISH DRAMA.
06CHAPTER IV. FORMS OF THE SPANISH DRAMA.
07CHAPTER V. SPANISH PROSE ROMANCE.
08CHAPTER VI. SPAIN—HISTORIANS, MISCELLANEOUS WRITERS, AND THE MYSTICS.
09CHAPTER VII. ELIZABETHAN POETRY.
10CHAPTER VIII. THE EARLIER DRAMATISTS.
11CHAPTER IX. THE ELIZABETHAN PROSE-WRITERS.
12CHAPTER X. FRANCE. POETRY OF THE LATER RENAISSANCE.

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