Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare
Title | Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Sophie Chiari |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2017-11-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1474427847 |
How can multicultural governance respond to our increasingly complex migratory world?
Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare
Title | Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Sophie Chiari |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | |
Genre | Literature and science |
ISBN | 9781474438735 |
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
Title | Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Sophie Chiari |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 278 |
Release | 2017-09-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1474427839 |
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
Title | Shakespeare's Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Sophie Chiari |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 309 |
Release | 2018-11-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1474442544 |
The first comprehensive history of Byzantine warfare in the tenth century.
Shakespeare and Science
Title | Shakespeare and Science PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Walker |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 2021-12-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1350044636 |
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
Title | Performances at Court in the Age of Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Sophie Chiari |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 295 |
Release | 2019-10-24 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1108486673 |
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
Title | Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale PDF eBook |
Author | Martina Zamparo |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 2022-10-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 303105167X |
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.