Spectacular Science Technology And Superstition In The Age Of Shakespeare
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Spectacular Science Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare
Author | : Sophie Chiari |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2017-09-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781474427838 |
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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.
Spectacular Science Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare
Author | : Sophie Chiari,Mickaël Popelard |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Literature and science |
ISBN | : 1474438733 |
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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.
Shakespeare s Representation of Weather Climate and Environment
Author | : Sophie Chiari |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2018-11-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781474442541 |
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The first comprehensive history of Byzantine warfare in the tenth century.
Shakespeare and Science
Author | : Katherine Walker |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2021-12-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781350044630 |
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With the recent turn to science studies and interdisciplinary research in Shakespearean scholarship, Shakespeare and Science: A Dictionary, provides a pedagogical resource for students and scholars. In charting Shakespeare's engagement with natural philosophical discourse, this edition shapes the future of Shakespearean scholarship and pedagogy significantly, appealing to students entering the field and current scholars in interdisciplinary research on the topic alongside the non-professional reader seeking to understand Shakespeare's language and early modern scientific practices. Shakespeare's works respond to early modern culture's rapidly burgeoning interest in how new astronomical theories, understandings of motion and change, and the cataloging of objects, vegetation, and animals in the natural world could provide new knowledge. To cite a famous example, Hamlet's letter to Ophelia plays with the differences between the Ptolemaic and Copernican notions of the earth's movement: “Doubt that the sun doth move” may either be, in the Ptolemaic view, an earnest plea or, in the Copernican system, a purposeful equivocation. The Dictionary contextualizes such moments and scientific terms that Shakespeare employs, creatively and critically, throughout his poetry and drama. The focus is on Shakespeare's multiform uses of language, rendering accessible to students of Shakespeare such terms as “firmament,” “planetary influence,” and “retrograde.”
Performances at Court in the Age of Shakespeare
Author | : Sophie Chiari,John Mucciolo |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2019-10-24 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781108486675 |
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A fascinating insight into court entertainment - encompassing dance, music and performance - in the age of Shakespeare.
Alchemy Paracelsianism and Shakespeare s The Winter s Tale
Author | : Martina Zamparo |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2022-10-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783031051678 |
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This book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeare’s last plays, The Winter’s Tale. A perusal of the vast literary and iconographic repertory of Renaissance alchemy reveals that this late play is imbued with several topoi, myths, and emblematic symbols coming from coeval alchemical, Paracelsian, and Hermetic sources. It also discusses the alchemical significance of water and time in the play’s circular and regenerative pattern and the healing role of women. All the major symbols of alchemy are present in Shakespeare’s play: the intertwined serpents of the caduceus, the chemical wedding, the filius philosophorum, and the so-called rex chymicus. This book also provides an in-depth survey of late Renaissance alchemy, Paracelsian medicine, and Hermetic culture in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. Importantly, it contends that The Winter’s Tale, in symbolically retracing the healing pattern of the rota alchemica and in emphasising the Hermetic principles of unity and concord, glorifies King James’s conciliatory attitude.
Shakespeare and the Environment A Dictionary
Author | : Sophie Chiari |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2022-01-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781350110472 |
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While our physical surroundings fashion our identities, we, in turn, fashion the natural elements in which or with which we live. This complex interaction between the human and the non-human already resonated in Shakespeare's plays and poems. As details of the early modern supra- and infra-celestial landscape feature in his works, this dictionary brings to the fore Shakespeare's responsiveness to and acute perception of his 'environment' and it covers the most significant uses of words related to this concept. In doing so, it also examines the epistemological changes that were taking place at the turn of the 17th century in a society which increasingly tried to master nature and its elements. For this reason, the intersections between the natural and the supernatural receive special emphasis. All in all, this dictionary offers a wide variety of resources that takes stock of the 'green criticism' that recently emerged in Shakespeare studies and provides a clear and complete overview of the idea, imagery and language of environment in the canon.
The Tempest
Author | : Brinda Charry |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2022-01-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781350284159 |
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The Tempest: Critical Tradition increases our knowledge of how Shakespeare's plays were received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The volume offers, in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The volume features criticism from key literary figures, such as Ben Jonson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Dryden, John Ruskin and Edward Malone. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. Thus the volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century.