Time Space And Motion In The Age Of Shakespeare
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Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare
Author: Angus Fletcher
language: en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: 2009-06-30
This focused but far-reaching work by the distinguished scholar Angus Fletcher reveals how early modern science and English poetry were in many ways components of one process: discovering the secrets of motion. Beginning with the achievement of Galileo, Time, Space, and Motion identifies the problem of motion as the central cultural issue of the time, pursued through the poetry of the age, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Ben Jonson and Milton.
Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare
Author: Angus Fletcher
language: en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: 2007-02-15
Taking us to the very heart of the enterprise of the Renaissance, this closely focused but far-reaching text reveals how early modern science and English poetry were in many ways components of one process: discovering and expressing the secrets of motion, whether in the language of mathematics or verse.
Speed and Flight in Shakespeare
Shakespeare's plays are fascinated by the problems of speed and flight. They are repeatedly interested in humans, spirits, and objects that move very fast; become airborne; and in some cases even travel into space. In Speed and Flight in Shakespeare, the first study of any kind on the subject, Steggle looks at how Shakespeare’s language explores ideas of speed and flight, and what theatrical resources his plays use to represent these states. Shakespeare has, this book argues, an aesthetic of speed and flight. Featuring chapters on The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Macbeth and The Tempest, this study opens up a new field around the ‘historical phenomenology’ of early modern speed.