Introduction --Part I. Popular beliefs --'Science' of astrology in Shakespeare's sonnets, Romeo and Juliet and King Lear /François Laroque --Staging devils and witches : had Shakespeare read Reginald Scot's The discoverie of witchcraft? /Pierre...
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Introduction --Part I. Popular beliefs --'Science' of astrology in Shakespeare's sonnets, Romeo and Juliet and King Lear /François Laroque --Staging devils and witches : had Shakespeare read Reginald Scot's The discoverie of witchcraft? /Pierre Kapitaniak --Part II. Healing and improving --"Remedies for life" : curing hysterica passio in Shakespeare's Othello, Macbeth and The Winter's tale /Sélima Lejri --'More, I prithee, more' : melancholy, musical appetite and medical discourse in Shakespeare's Twelfth night /Pierre Iselin --Saving perfection from the alchemists : Shakespeare's use of alchemy /Margaret Jones-Davies --Part III. Knowledge and (re)discoveries --Of mites and motes : Shakespearean readings of epicurean science /Jonathan Pollock --Shakespeare's Alhazen : Love's Labour's Lost and the history of optics /Anne-Valérie Dulac --Shakespeare's Montaigne : maps and books in The Tempest /Frank Lestringant, translated by Sophie Chiari --Unlimited science : the endless transformation of nature in Bacon and Shakespeare's The Tempest /Mickaël Popelard --Part IV. Mechanical tropes --'Vat is the clock, Jack?' : Shakespeare and the technology of time /Sophie Chiari --'Wheels have been set in motion' : geocentrism and relativity in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead /Liliane Campos --Coda:Scepticism and the spectacular : on Shakespeare in an age of science /Carla Mazzio. To the readers who ask themselves: What is science?', this volume provides an answer from an early modern perspective, whereby science included such various intellectual pursuits as history, poetry, occultism and philosophy
