Kitch Shakespeare’s Theater of Nature

Science, Religion, and the Orders of Mimesis in Early Modern Europe
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-78082-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 301 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

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

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.