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Shakespeare's Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of Modern Cosmology

Shakespeare's Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of Modern Cosmology

Usher, Peter D.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceShakespeare

ISBN10: 1433191709
ISBN13: 9781433191701
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Published: Nov 30 2021
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In a novel reading of Shakespeare's plays, this book addresses an observation first made many decades ago, that Shakespeare appears to neglect the intellectual upheavals that astronomy brought about in his lifetime. The author examines temporal, situational, and verbal anomalies in Hamlet and other plays using hermeneutic-dialectic methodology, and finds a consistent pattern of interpretation that is compatible with the history of astronomy and with the development of modern cosmology. He also demonstrates how Shakespeare takes into account beliefs about the nature of the heavens from the time of Pythagoras up to and including discoveries and theories in the first decade of the seventeenth century. The book makes the case that, as in many other fields, Shakespeare's celestial knowledge is far beyond what was commonly known at the time.

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