224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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When Planetomachia was published in 1585, Greene himself-always the best advertiser of his own books-promised his readers a perfectly balanced diet of edification and entertainment. He described his newest offering as an astronomical discourse on the nature and influence of the planets interlaced with 'pleasant and tragical histories,' which one could ostensibly use as a manual to identify various... Read more
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.
Biography
Nandini Das is Lecturer in Renaissance English Literature at the University of Liverpool, UK.
’...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
