Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare
Herausgeber: Popelard, Mickael; Chiari, Sophie
Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare
Herausgeber: Popelard, Mickael; Chiari, Sophie
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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.
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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.
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- 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
- 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
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).
Acknowledgements
Note on Contributors
Textual Note
General Introduction
I. Popular Beliefs
1. The 'Science' of Astrology in Shakespeare's Sonnets, Romeo and Juliet and King Lear, François Laroque
2. Staging Devils and Witches: Did Shakespeare Read Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft?, Pierre Kapitaniak
II. Healing and Improving
3. "Remedies For Life": Curing Hysterica Passio in Shakespeare's Othello, Macbeth and The Winter's Tale, Sélima Lejri
4. "More, I prithee, more": Melancholy, Musical Appetite and Medical Discourse in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Pierre Iselin
5. Saving Perfection from the Alchemists: Shakespeare's Use of Alchemy, Margaret Jones-Davies
III. Knowledge and (Re)Discoveries
6. Of Mites and Motes: Shakespearean Readings of Epicurean Science, Jonathan Pollock
7. Shakespeare's Alhazen: Love's Labour's Lost and the History of Optics, Anne-Valérie Dulac
8. Shakespeare's Montaigne: Maps and Books in The Tempest., Frank Lestringant
9. Unlimited Science: the Endless Transformation of Nature in Bacon and Shakespeare, Mickaël Popelard
IV. Mechanical Tropes
10. "Vat is de clock, Jack?": Shakespeare and the 'Science' of Time, Sophie Chiari
11. "Wheels have been set in motion": Geocentrism and Relativity in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Liliane Campos
Coda
Scepticism and the Spectacular: On Shakespeare in an Age of Science, Carla Mazzio
General Bibliography
Index.
Note on Contributors
Textual Note
General Introduction
I. Popular Beliefs
1. The 'Science' of Astrology in Shakespeare's Sonnets, Romeo and Juliet and King Lear, François Laroque
2. Staging Devils and Witches: Did Shakespeare Read Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft?, Pierre Kapitaniak
II. Healing and Improving
3. "Remedies For Life": Curing Hysterica Passio in Shakespeare's Othello, Macbeth and The Winter's Tale, Sélima Lejri
4. "More, I prithee, more": Melancholy, Musical Appetite and Medical Discourse in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Pierre Iselin
5. Saving Perfection from the Alchemists: Shakespeare's Use of Alchemy, Margaret Jones-Davies
III. Knowledge and (Re)Discoveries
6. Of Mites and Motes: Shakespearean Readings of Epicurean Science, Jonathan Pollock
7. Shakespeare's Alhazen: Love's Labour's Lost and the History of Optics, Anne-Valérie Dulac
8. Shakespeare's Montaigne: Maps and Books in The Tempest., Frank Lestringant
9. Unlimited Science: the Endless Transformation of Nature in Bacon and Shakespeare, Mickaël Popelard
IV. Mechanical Tropes
10. "Vat is de clock, Jack?": Shakespeare and the 'Science' of Time, Sophie Chiari
11. "Wheels have been set in motion": Geocentrism and Relativity in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Liliane Campos
Coda
Scepticism and the Spectacular: On Shakespeare in an Age of Science, Carla Mazzio
General Bibliography
Index.
Acknowledgements
Note on Contributors
Textual Note
General Introduction
I. Popular Beliefs
1. The 'Science' of Astrology in Shakespeare's Sonnets, Romeo and Juliet and King Lear, François Laroque
2. Staging Devils and Witches: Did Shakespeare Read Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft?, Pierre Kapitaniak
II. Healing and Improving
3. "Remedies For Life": Curing Hysterica Passio in Shakespeare's Othello, Macbeth and The Winter's Tale, Sélima Lejri
4. "More, I prithee, more": Melancholy, Musical Appetite and Medical Discourse in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Pierre Iselin
5. Saving Perfection from the Alchemists: Shakespeare's Use of Alchemy, Margaret Jones-Davies
III. Knowledge and (Re)Discoveries
6. Of Mites and Motes: Shakespearean Readings of Epicurean Science, Jonathan Pollock
7. Shakespeare's Alhazen: Love's Labour's Lost and the History of Optics, Anne-Valérie Dulac
8. Shakespeare's Montaigne: Maps and Books in The Tempest., Frank Lestringant
9. Unlimited Science: the Endless Transformation of Nature in Bacon and Shakespeare, Mickaël Popelard
IV. Mechanical Tropes
10. "Vat is de clock, Jack?": Shakespeare and the 'Science' of Time, Sophie Chiari
11. "Wheels have been set in motion": Geocentrism and Relativity in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Liliane Campos
Coda
Scepticism and the Spectacular: On Shakespeare in an Age of Science, Carla Mazzio
General Bibliography
Index.
Note on Contributors
Textual Note
General Introduction
I. Popular Beliefs
1. The 'Science' of Astrology in Shakespeare's Sonnets, Romeo and Juliet and King Lear, François Laroque
2. Staging Devils and Witches: Did Shakespeare Read Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft?, Pierre Kapitaniak
II. Healing and Improving
3. "Remedies For Life": Curing Hysterica Passio in Shakespeare's Othello, Macbeth and The Winter's Tale, Sélima Lejri
4. "More, I prithee, more": Melancholy, Musical Appetite and Medical Discourse in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Pierre Iselin
5. Saving Perfection from the Alchemists: Shakespeare's Use of Alchemy, Margaret Jones-Davies
III. Knowledge and (Re)Discoveries
6. Of Mites and Motes: Shakespearean Readings of Epicurean Science, Jonathan Pollock
7. Shakespeare's Alhazen: Love's Labour's Lost and the History of Optics, Anne-Valérie Dulac
8. Shakespeare's Montaigne: Maps and Books in The Tempest., Frank Lestringant
9. Unlimited Science: the Endless Transformation of Nature in Bacon and Shakespeare, Mickaël Popelard
IV. Mechanical Tropes
10. "Vat is de clock, Jack?": Shakespeare and the 'Science' of Time, Sophie Chiari
11. "Wheels have been set in motion": Geocentrism and Relativity in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Liliane Campos
Coda
Scepticism and the Spectacular: On Shakespeare in an Age of Science, Carla Mazzio
General Bibliography
Index.