Author: Dan Falk
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250008786
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
William Shakespeare lived at a remarkable time—a period we now recognize as the first phase of the Scientific Revolution. New ideas were transforming Western thought, the medieval was giving way to the modern, and the work of a few key figures hinted at the brave new world to come: the methodical and rational Galileo, the skeptical Montaigne, and—as Falk convincingly argues—Shakespeare, who observed human nature just as intently as the astronomers who studied the night sky. In The Science of Shakespeare, we meet a colorful cast of Renaissance thinkers, including Thomas Digges, who published the first English account of the "new astronomy" and lived in the same neighborhood as Shakespeare; Thomas Harriot—"England's Galileo"—who aimed a telescope at the night sky months ahead of his Italian counterpart; and Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, whose observatory-castle stood within sight of Elsinore, chosen by Shakespeare as the setting for Hamlet—and whose family crest happened to include the names "Rosencrans" and "Guildensteren." And then there's Galileo himself: As Falk shows, his telescopic observations may have influenced one of Shakespeare's final works. Dan Falk's The Science of Shakespeare explores the connections between the famous playwright and the beginnings of the Scientific Revolution—and how, together, they changed the world forever.
This Goodly Frame the Earth
Author: Francis Tiffany
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Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Publisher:
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Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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The Science of Shakespeare
Author: Dan Falk
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250008786
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
William Shakespeare lived at a remarkable time—a period we now recognize as the first phase of the Scientific Revolution. New ideas were transforming Western thought, the medieval was giving way to the modern, and the work of a few key figures hinted at the brave new world to come: the methodical and rational Galileo, the skeptical Montaigne, and—as Falk convincingly argues—Shakespeare, who observed human nature just as intently as the astronomers who studied the night sky. In The Science of Shakespeare, we meet a colorful cast of Renaissance thinkers, including Thomas Digges, who published the first English account of the "new astronomy" and lived in the same neighborhood as Shakespeare; Thomas Harriot—"England's Galileo"—who aimed a telescope at the night sky months ahead of his Italian counterpart; and Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, whose observatory-castle stood within sight of Elsinore, chosen by Shakespeare as the setting for Hamlet—and whose family crest happened to include the names "Rosencrans" and "Guildensteren." And then there's Galileo himself: As Falk shows, his telescopic observations may have influenced one of Shakespeare's final works. Dan Falk's The Science of Shakespeare explores the connections between the famous playwright and the beginnings of the Scientific Revolution—and how, together, they changed the world forever.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250008786
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
William Shakespeare lived at a remarkable time—a period we now recognize as the first phase of the Scientific Revolution. New ideas were transforming Western thought, the medieval was giving way to the modern, and the work of a few key figures hinted at the brave new world to come: the methodical and rational Galileo, the skeptical Montaigne, and—as Falk convincingly argues—Shakespeare, who observed human nature just as intently as the astronomers who studied the night sky. In The Science of Shakespeare, we meet a colorful cast of Renaissance thinkers, including Thomas Digges, who published the first English account of the "new astronomy" and lived in the same neighborhood as Shakespeare; Thomas Harriot—"England's Galileo"—who aimed a telescope at the night sky months ahead of his Italian counterpart; and Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, whose observatory-castle stood within sight of Elsinore, chosen by Shakespeare as the setting for Hamlet—and whose family crest happened to include the names "Rosencrans" and "Guildensteren." And then there's Galileo himself: As Falk shows, his telescopic observations may have influenced one of Shakespeare's final works. Dan Falk's The Science of Shakespeare explores the connections between the famous playwright and the beginnings of the Scientific Revolution—and how, together, they changed the world forever.
Hamlet
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474273882
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and criticism in the decade since its first publication. A timely up-date in the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare's death which will ensure the Arden edition continues to offer students a comprehensive and current critical account of the play, alongside the most reliable and fully-annotated text available.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474273882
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and criticism in the decade since its first publication. A timely up-date in the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare's death which will ensure the Arden edition continues to offer students a comprehensive and current critical account of the play, alongside the most reliable and fully-annotated text available.
Paradise Lost, Book 3
Author: John Milton
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Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Languages : en
Pages : 68
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A Collection of Familiar Quotations
Author: John Bartlett
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Category : Quotations
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Category : Quotations
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by Shakespeare
Author: Samuel Ayscough
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Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Shakspeare's Dramatic Works
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Languages : en
Pages : 694
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An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by Shakspeare
Author: Samuel Ayscough
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Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Dramatic Works
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Dramatic Works with Explanatory Notes. A New Ed., to which is Now Added a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words by Samuel Ayscough
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 704
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