In this collection, leading scholars tackle subjects and disciplines as diverse as alchemy, optics, astronomy, acoustics, geometry, mechanics, and mathematics to reveal how theatre in early modern Spain could be used to deploy scientific knowledge....
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In this collection, leading scholars tackle subjects and disciplines as diverse as alchemy, optics, astronomy, acoustics, geometry, mechanics, and mathematics to reveal how theatre in early modern Spain could be used to deploy scientific knowledge. Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Great Theatres of the World -- Part One: Technologies of Knowledge -- 1 From Mesopotamia to Madrid: The Legacy of Ancient and Medieval Science in Early Modern Spain -- 2 The Technological Environment of the Early Modern Spanish Stage -- 3 Gridded Fascinations: Early Modern Drama's Geometric Synthesis -- Part Two: Stages of Science -- 4 Curing the Malady of Lovesickness: Medicine and Physicians in Early Spanish Theatre -- 5 Poison(ing) and Spanish Comedia -- 6 The Soul under Siege: Strategy and Neostoicism in Calderón de la Barca's El sitio de Bredá -- Part Three: Performing Numbers -- 7 Figures of Arithmetic: Numeracy, Calculation, and Accounting in the Comedia -- 8 Automatons and the Early Modern Drama of Skepticism -- 9 Daedalean Epistemology: Staging the Labyrinth of Knowledge in Velázquez's Las Hilanderas and Calderón de la Barca's Los tres mayores prodigios -- Conclusion: Looking Behind the Curtain: Clues of Early Modern Spanish Science -- Contributors.
