Shakespeare’s Theater of Nature

Science, Religion, and the Orders of Mimesis in Early Modern Europe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-03-07
Mått148 x 210 x 22 mm
Vikt526 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Antal sidor301
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031780813

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Aaron Kitch is Associate Professor of English at Bowdoin College, USA, and the author of Political Economy and the States of Literature in Early Modern England (2009). Together with Jennifer Rust, he is the co-editor of Rethinking Science and Religion in Early Modern Culture (2025) and has published articles in Studies in English Literature, Religion and Literature, Shakespeare Quarterly, Modern Philology, and Configurations, among other journals.