In this collection, leading scholars tackle subjects and disciplines as diverse as alchemy, optics, astronomy, acoustics, geometry, mechanics, and mathematics to reveal how theatre in early modern Spain could be used to deploy scientific knowledge.
In this collection, leading scholars tackle subjects and disciplines as diverse as alchemy, optics, astronomy, acoustics, geometry, mechanics, and mathematics to reveal how theatre in early modern Spain could be used to deploy scientific knowledge.
Enrique García Santo-Tomás is the Frank P. Casa Collegiate Professor of Spanish at the University of Michigan.
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List of Illustrations Introduction: Great Theatres of the World ENRIQUE GARCÍA SANTO-TOMÁS Part One: Technologies of Knowledge 1 From Mesopotamia to Madrid: The Legacy of Ancient and Medieval Science in Early Modern Spain RYAN SZPIECH 2 The Technological Environment of the Early Modern Spanish Stage ALEJANDRO GARCÍA-REIDY 3 Gridded Fascinations: Early Modern Drama’s Geometric Synthesis JOHN SLATER Part Two: Stages of Science 4 Curing the Malady of Lovesickness: Medicine and Physicians in Early Spanish Theatre JULIO VÉLEZ-SAINZ 5 Poison(ing) and Spanish Comedia LOURDES ALBUIXECH 6 The Soul under Siege: Strategy and Neostoicism in Calderón de la Barca’s El sitio de Bredá STEPHEN RUPP Part Three: Performing Numbers 7 Figures of Arithmetic: Numeracy, Calculation, and Accounting in the Comedia ELVIRA VILCHES 8 Automatons and the Early Modern Drama of Skepticism SETH KIMMEL 9 Daedalean Epistemology: Staging the Labyrinth of Knowledge in Velázquez’s Las Hilanderas and Calderón de la Barca’s Los tres mayores prodigios MATTHEW G. ANCELL Conclusion: Looking Behind the Curtain: Clues of Early Modern Spanish Science MARÍA M. PORTUONDO Contributors
List of Illustrations Introduction: Great Theatres of the World ENRIQUE GARCÍA SANTO-TOMÁS Part One: Technologies of Knowledge 1 From Mesopotamia to Madrid: The Legacy of Ancient and Medieval Science in Early Modern Spain RYAN SZPIECH 2 The Technological Environment of the Early Modern Spanish Stage ALEJANDRO GARCÍA-REIDY 3 Gridded Fascinations: Early Modern Drama’s Geometric Synthesis JOHN SLATER Part Two: Stages of Science 4 Curing the Malady of Lovesickness: Medicine and Physicians in Early Spanish Theatre JULIO VÉLEZ-SAINZ 5 Poison(ing) and Spanish Comedia LOURDES ALBUIXECH 6 The Soul under Siege: Strategy and Neostoicism in Calderón de la Barca’s El sitio de Bredá STEPHEN RUPP Part Three: Performing Numbers 7 Figures of Arithmetic: Numeracy, Calculation, and Accounting in the Comedia ELVIRA VILCHES 8 Automatons and the Early Modern Drama of Skepticism SETH KIMMEL 9 Daedalean Epistemology: Staging the Labyrinth of Knowledge in Velázquez’s Las Hilanderas and Calderón de la Barca’s Los tres mayores prodigios MATTHEW G. ANCELL Conclusion: Looking Behind the Curtain: Clues of Early Modern Spanish Science MARÍA M. PORTUONDO Contributors
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