This brief and u0026 illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age and u0026 later is an useful companion for readers of the great writers of the 16th and u0026 17th centuries: Shakespeare, the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne, Milton etc. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Prof. Tillyard in the process of its various transformations by the dynamic spirit of the Renaissance. Among his topics are: Angels; the Stars and u0026 Fortunes; the Analogy between Macrocosm and u0026 Microcosm; the Four Elements; the Four Humours; Sympathies; Correspondences; and u0026 the Cosmic Dance - ideas and u0026 symbols which inspirited the minds and u0026 imaginations not only of the Elizabethans but of all of the Renaissance.PrefaceIntroductoryOrderSinThe Chain of BeingThe Links in the ChainThe Corresponding PlanesThe CorrespondencesThe Cosmic DanceEpilogueNotesIndex