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Shakespeare's theater of nature : science, religion, and the orders of mimesis in early modern Europe / Aaron Kitch.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR3039 .K58 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kitch, Aaron, author.
- Series:
- Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine
- Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine, 2634-6435
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
- Nature in literature.
- Natural theology.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 301 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Shakespeare's Theater of Nature 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 (ordo creationis). 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"--Page 4 of cover
- Contents:
- Representing nature
- Staging nature
- The nature of idolatry in Two gentlemen of Verona
- Natural perspectives in the Henriad
- Natural medicine in All's well that ends well and Macbeth
- The nature of divination in Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra
- King Lear and the orders of nature
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-285) and index
- ISBN:
- 9783031780813
- 3031780817
- OCLC:
- 1461832236
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