Spectacular science, technology and superstition in the age of Shakespeare / / edited by Sophie Chiari and Mickaël Popelard
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| Autore: |
Chiari Sophie
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| Titolo: |
Spectacular science, technology and superstition in the age of Shakespeare / / edited by Sophie Chiari and Mickaël Popelard
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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2017] |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 278 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Disciplina: | 822.33 |
| Soggetto topico: | Science - History - 16th century |
| Science - History - 17th century | |
| Literature and science | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | ChiariSophie |
| PopelardMickaël | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-270) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Textual Note -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Popular Beliefs -- Chapter 1 The 'Science' of Astrology in Shakespeare's Sonnets, Romeo and Juliet and King Lear -- Chapter 2 Staging Devils and Witches: Had Shakespeare Read Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft? -- Part II Healing and Improving -- Chapter 3 'Remedies for Life': Curing Hysterica Passio in Shakespeare's Othello, Macbeth and The Winter's Tale -- Chapter 4 'More, I prithee, more': Melancholy, Musical Appetite and Medical Discourse in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night -- Chapter 5 Saving Perfection from the Alchemists: Shakespeare's Use of Alchemy -- Part III Knowledge and (Re)Discoveries -- Chapter 6 Of Mites and Motes: Shakespearean Readings of Epicurean Science -- Chapter 7 Shakespeare's Alhazen: Love's Labour's Lost and the History of Optics -- Chapter 8 Shakespeare's Montaigne: Maps and Books in The Tempest -- Chapter 9 Unlimited Science: The Endless Transformation of Nature in Bacon and Shakespeare's The Tempest -- Part IV Mechanical Tropes -- Chapter 10 'Vat is the clock, Jack?': Shakespeare and the Technology of Time -- Chapter 11 'Wheels have been set in motion': Geocentrism and Relativity in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead -- Coda: Scepticism and the Spectacular - On Shakespeare in an Age of Science -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | How can multicultural governance respond to our increasingly complex migratory world?. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Spectacular science, technology and superstition in the age of Shakespeare |
| ISBN: | 1-4744-2784-7 |
| 1-4744-2783-9 | |
| 1-4744-3873-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828246503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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