Overview
- First book to examine the influence that sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted on the writing and production of early modern drama
- Examines how how the terms, concepts, and implications of early modern mathematics impacted upon plays’ vocabularies, forms, and aesthetic and dramaturgical effects and affects
- Focuses analysis on six key plays from five key early modern dramatists
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine (PLSM)
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Book Title: Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama
Authors: Joseph Jarrett
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26566-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26565-6Published: 11 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26568-7Published: 01 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26566-3Published: 30 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6435
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6443
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 242
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Drama, Theatre History