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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820230703321

Autore

Fletcher Angus <1930-2016.>

Titolo

Time, space, and motion in the age of Shakespeare [[electronic resource] /] / Angus Fletcher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-674-26348-0

0-674-02711-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 p.)

Disciplina

321/.30936

Soggetti

English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Literature and science - England - History - 17th century

Literature and science - England - History - 16th century

Motion in literature

Renaissance - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-175) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Galileo's Metaphor -- Chapter 2. The Theme of Motion -- Chapter 3. On Drama, Poetry, and Movement -- Chapter 4. Marlowe Invents the Deadline -- Chapter 5. The Defense of the Interim -- Chapter 6. Structure of an Epitaph -- Chapter 7. Donne's Apocryphal Wit -- Chapter 8. Milton and the Moons of Jupiter -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This focused but far-reaching work by the distinguished scholar Angus Fletcher reveals how early modern science and English poetry were in many ways components of one process: discovering the secrets of motion. Beginning with the achievement of Galileo, Time, Space, and Motion identifies the problem of motion as the central cultural issue of the time, pursued through the poetry of the age, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Ben Jonson and Milton.