Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama

• Main Author: Jarrett, Joseph (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Subjects: Literature, Modern.; Drama.; Theater-History.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; Theatre History.

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,...

Table of Contents:

• -1. Introduction
• 2. Algebra and the Art of War: Marlowe's Tamburlaine 1 and 2
• 3. 'Magic, and the Mathematic Rules': Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
• 4. Circular Geometries: Dekker's Old Fortunatus
• 5. Infinities and Infinitesimals: Shakespeare's Hamlet
• 6. Quantifying Death, Calculating Revenge: Chettle's Tragedy of Hoffman
• 7. Conclusion.