{"product_id":"science-on-stage-in-early-modern-spain-9781487504052","title":"Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eScience on Stage in Early Modern Spain \u003c\/em\u003efeatures essays by leading scholars in the fields of literary studies and the history of science, exploring the relationship between technical innovations and theatrical events that incorporated scientific content into dramatic productions. Focusing on Spanish dramas between 1500 and 1700, through the birth and development of its playhouses and coliseums and the phenomenal success of its major writers, this collection addresses a unique phenomenon through the most popular, versatile, and generous medium of the time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe contributors\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003etackle subjects and disciplines as diverse as alchemy, optics, astronomy, acoustics, geometry, mechanics, and mathematics to reveal how theatre could be used to deploy scientific knowledge. While \u003ci\u003eScience on Stage\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to cultural and performance studies it also engages with issues of censorship, the effect of the Spanish Inquisition on the circulation of ideas, and the influence \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There is a great deal of illuminating and insightful analysis in this volume, and the approaches espoused by the various authors provide a blueprint, so to speak, for other scholars to approach the Spanish comedia from a necessary vantage point – to consider the interplay of the scientific discourses of the day within the larger study of the comedia. Solidly written, well documented, and meticulously researched, Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain is no doubt an important addition to comedia scholarship.\" -- Chad M. Gasta, Iowa State University * \u003cem\u003eModern Philology\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This groundbreaking book should be of keen interest to any student or scholar of the history of the stage, the history of science, and their dynamic interplay in early modern European society.\" -- Michael Armstrong-Roche, Wesleyan University * \u003cem\u003eRenaissance Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187719594327,"sku":"9781487504052","price":47.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/science-on-stage-in-early-modern-spain-9781487504052","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}