| Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama 2019 Edition Contributor(s): Jarrett, Joseph (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030265684 ISBN-13: 9783030265687 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $85.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - General - Literary Criticism | Drama - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 792.09 |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.68 lbs) 242 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book considers the influence that sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted on the writing and production of popular drama between about 1587 and 1603. It concentrates upon six plays by five early modern dramatists: Tamburlaine, Part 1 (1587) and Tamburlaine, Part 2 (1587) by Christopher Marlowe; Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (1589) by Robert Greene; Old Fortunatus (1599) by Thomas Dekker; Hamlet (1600) by William Shakespeare; and The Tragedy of Hoffman (1603) by Henry Chettle. Each chapter analyses how the terms, concepts, and implications of contemporary mathematics impacted upon these plays' vocabularies, forms, and aesthetic and dramaturgical effects and affects. |