Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030265656)

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, Part 2 (1587) by Christopher Marlowe; Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (1589) by Robert Greene; Old Fortunatus (1599) by Thomas Dekker; Hamlet (1600) by William Shakespeare; and The Tragedy of Hoffman (1603) by Henry Chettle. Each chapter analyses how the terms, concepts, and implications of contemporary mathematics impacted upon these plays' vocabularies, forms, and aesthetic and dramaturgical effects and affects.


Author: Joseph Jarrett
ISBN-10: 303026565X
ISBN-13: 9783030265656
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/11/2019
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.81d