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Spectacular science, technology and superstition in the age of Shakespeare / / edited by Sophie Chiari and Mickaël Popelard
| Spectacular science, technology and superstition in the age of Shakespeare / / edited by Sophie Chiari and Mickaël Popelard |
| Autore | Chiari Sophie |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [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 |
| ISBN |
1-4744-2784-7
1-4744-2783-9 1-4744-3873-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793143003321 |
Chiari Sophie
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| Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2017] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Spectacular science, technology and superstition in the age of Shakespeare / / edited by Sophie Chiari and Mickaël Popelard
| Spectacular science, technology and superstition in the age of Shakespeare / / edited by Sophie Chiari and Mickaël Popelard |
| Autore | Chiari Sophie |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [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 |
| ISBN |
1-4744-2784-7
1-4744-2783-9 1-4744-3873-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828246503321 |
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Chiari Sophie
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| Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2017] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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