Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare

ISBN-13: 9781474427821 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str.

Sophie Chiari; Mickael Popelard

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.