Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain

Herausgeber: Santo-Tomas, Enrique Garcia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this collection, leading scholars tackle subjects and disciplines as diverse as alchemy, optics, astronomy, acoustics, geometry, mechanics, and mathematics to reveal how theatre in early modern Spain could be used to deploy scientific knowledge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781487504052
• ISBN-10: 1487504055
• Artikelnr.: 54612726

Autorenporträt

Edited by Enrique García Santo-Tomás

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction: Great Theatres of the World
ENRIQUE GARCÍA SANTO-TOMÁS
Part One: Technologies of Knowledge
1 From Mesopotamia to Madrid: The Legacy of Ancient and Medieval Science in
Early Modern Spain
   RYAN SZPIECH
2 The Technological Environment of the Early Modern Spanish Stage
   ALEJANDRO GARCÍA-REIDY
3 Gridded Fascinations: Early Modern Drama’s Geometric Synthesis
   JOHN SLATER
Part Two: Stages of Science
4 Curing the Malady of Lovesickness: Medicine and Physicians in Early
Spanish Theatre
   JULIO VÉLEZ-SAINZ
5 Poison(ing) and Spanish Comedia
   LOURDES ALBUIXECH
6 The Soul under Siege: Strategy and Neostoicism in Calderón de la Barca’s
El sitio de Bredá
   STEPHEN RUPP
Part Three: Performing Numbers
7 Figures of Arithmetic: Numeracy, Calculation, and Accounting in the
Comedia
   ELVIRA VILCHES
8 Automatons and the Early Modern Drama of Skepticism
   SETH KIMMEL
9 Daedalean Epistemology: Staging the Labyrinth of Knowledge in Velázquez’s
Las Hilanderas and Calderón de la Barca’s Los tres mayores prodigios
   MATTHEW G. ANCELL
Conclusion: Looking Behind the Curtain: Clues of Early Modern Spanish
Science
MARÍA M. PORTUONDO
Contributors