Shakespeare's Theater of Nature

Science, Religion, and the Orders of Mimesis in Early Modern Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-78081-3
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 301 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

argues that Shakespeare combined art and nature in new ways while experimenting with relations between words, images, and objects as sources of knowledge and pleasure.  Shakespeare’s re-centering of nature as a source of theatrical representation in a range of plays follows debates in natural philosophy and theology about how to understand divinity in and through the order of nature ()Early chapters analyze early modern reframing of nature by printed books of botany, cosmology, and history—as well Tudor interludes that center nature as a subject—while later chapters offer readings of eight plays by Shakespeare that draw on classical, medieval, and early modern debates in natural philosophy and theology to create new modes of dramatic mimesis. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kitch, Aaron

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Representing Nature.- 3. Staging Nature.- 4. Natural Idolatry in 5. Visualizing Nature in the History Plays.- 6. Natural Medicine in  and 7. The Nature of Divination in  and 8. and the Orders of Nature.- 9. Epilogue: Rethinking Nature.

Über Autor(innen)

Aaron Kitch is Associate Professor of English at Bowdoin College, USA, and the author of (2009). Together with Jennifer Rust, he is the co-editor of (2025) and has published articles in and among other journals.