Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama

ISBN-13: 9783030265687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 242 str.

Joseph Jarrett

Spis treści

-1. Introduction.- 2. Algebra and the Art of War: Marlowe’s Tamburlaine 1 and 2 .- 3. ‘Magic, and the Mathematic Rules’: Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay.- 4. Circular Geometries: Dekker’s Old Fortunatus.- 5. Infinities and Infinitesimals: Shakespeare’s Hamlet.- 6. Quantifying Death, Calculating Revenge: Chettle’s Tragedy of Hoffman.- 7. Conclusion.

O autorze

Joseph Jarrett is currently a Lumley Junior Research Fellow at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, UK.