{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-science-9780192898548","title":"Shakespeare and Science","description":"As a figurehead for the literary humanities, and a dramatist whose plays feature fairies, ghosts, and spirits, Shakespeare may not be the first author that comes to mind when thinking about science. Tom Rutter shows, however, that in his plays and poetry Shakespeare made detailed use of the knowledge and theories of the cosmos, the natural world, and human biology that were available to him. These range from astronomical and anatomical ideas derived from medieval scholars, Islamic philosophers, and ancient Greek and Roman authorities, through to the challenges issued to those earlier models by more recent figures such as Copernicus and Vesalius. Shakespeare's treatment of these materials was informed by the poetic and dramatic media in which he worked; the dialogic nature of drama enabled an approach that could be provisional, exploratory, and tolerant of uncertainty and contradiction. Shakespeare made the early modern playhouse a venue for the production of scientific understanding through performance, illusion, and the creative use of space. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs well as surveying current scholarship that contextualizes Shakespeare's work in relation to histories of meteorology, matter theory, humoral physiology, racialization, mathematics, and more, \u003cem\u003eShakespeare and Science\u003c\/em\u003e offers detailed original readings of a variety of texts including the Histories, \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAntony and Cleopatra\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOthello\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/em\u003e, the Sonnets, and \u003cem\u003eLucrece\u003c\/em\u003e. It also makes extensive reference to works by Shakespeare's near-contemporaries such as Robert Recorde, William Fulke, Juan Huarte, and Thomas Elyot. Its four chapters focus on astronomy and meteorology, matter, the body, and mathematics. Rutter's overall approach is informed by recent studies that interrogate 'science' as a concept, and that question both the boundary between literature and science and the idea of a seventeenth-century 'scientific revolution'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom Rutter, \u003cem\u003eSenior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, University of Sheffield\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTom Rutter\u003c\/strong\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama at the University of Sheffield, where he has taught since 2012. Before that he worked at London South Bank University and then Sheffield Hallam. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eWork and Play on the Shakespearean Stage\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Introduction to Christopher Marlowe\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eShakespeare and the Admiral's Men\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as numerous scholarly articles. He has also edited \u003cem\u003eA Companion to the Cavendishes\u003c\/em\u003e with Lisa Hopkins and \u003cem\u003eThe Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama\u003c\/em\u003e with Michelle M. Dowd. He is an editor of \u003cem\u003eShakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51181868187922,"sku":"9780192898548","price":67.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c92920f5-5e19-47d2-925f-516a3b1e18fe.jpg?v=1744406779","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shakespeare-and-science-9780192898548","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}