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Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Sophie Chiari is Professor of Early Modern English Literature at Clermont Auvergne University, France. She has written several books and articles on Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Her recent publications include Shakespeare's Anatomy of Wit: Love's Labour's Lost (2014) and As You Like It: Shakespeare's Comedy of Liberty (2016). She also recently edited The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature (2015). Mickaël Popelard is Senior Lecturer in English studies at the University of Caen- Normandie, France. He has written several articles on Shakespeare and Bacon, as well as a monograph on Francis Bacon (Francis Bacon: l'humaniste, le magicien, l'ingénieur, 2010) and a book on the figure of the scientist in Shakespeare's The Tempest and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus (Rêves de puissance et ruine de l'âme: la figure du savant chez Shakespeare et Marlowe, 2010).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9781474427821
• ISBN-10: 1474427820
• Artikelnr.: 53776997