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Spectacular science, technology and superstition in the age of Shakespeare /
To the readers who ask themselves: What is science?', this volume provides an answer from an early modern perspective, whereby science included such various intellectual pursuits as history, poetry, occultism and philosophy.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. Popular beliefs
- 'Science' of astrology in Shakespeare's sonnets, Romeo and Juliet and King Lear / François Laroque
- Staging devils and witches : had Shakespeare read Reginald Scot's The discoverie of witchcraft? / Pierre Kapitaniak
- Part II. Healing and improving
- "Remedies for life" : curing hysterica passio in Shakespeare's Othello, Macbeth and The Winter's tale / Sélima Lejri
- 'More, I prithee, more' : melancholy, musical appetite and medical discourse in Shakespeare's Twelfth night / Pierre Iselin
- Saving perfection from the alchemists : Shakespeare's use of alchemy / Margaret Jones-Davies
- Part III. Knowledge and (re)discoveries
- Of mites and motes : Shakespearean readings of epicurean science / Jonathan Pollock
- Shakespeare's Alhazen : Love's Labour's Lost and the history of optics / Anne-Valérie Dulac
- Shakespeare's Montaigne : maps and books in The Tempest / Frank Lestringant, translated by Sophie Chiari
- Unlimited science : the endless transformation of nature in Bacon and Shakespeare's The Tempest / Mickaël Popelard
- Part IV. Mechanical tropes
- 'Vat is the clock, Jack?' : Shakespeare and the technology of time / Sophie Chiari
- 'Wheels have been set in motion' : geocentrism and relativity in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead / Liliane Campos
- Coda: Scepticism and the spectacular : on Shakespeare in an age of science / Carla Mazzio.