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Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain features essays by leading scholars in the fields of literary studies and the history of science, exploring the relationship between technical innovations and theatrical events that incorporated scientific content into dramatic productions. Focusing on Spanish dramas between 1500 and 1700, through the birth and development of its playhouses and coliseums and the phenomenal success of its major writers, this collection addresses a unique phenomenon through the most popular, versatile, and generous medium of the time.
The contributors tackle subjects and disciplines as diverse as alchemy, optics, astronomy, acoustics, geometry, mechanics, and mathematics to reveal how theatre could be used to deploy scientific knowledge. While Science on Stage contributes to cultural and performance studies it also engages with issues of censorship, the effect of the Spanish Inquisition on the circulation of ideas, and the influence of the Eastern traditions in Spain.
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Introduction: Great Theatres of the World
ENRIQUE GARCÍA SANTO-TOMÁS
Part One: Technologies of Knowledge
1 From Mesopotamia to Madrid: The Legacy of Ancient and Medieval Science in Early Modern Spain
RYAN SZPIECH
2 The Technological Environment of the Early Modern Spanish Stage
ALEJANDRO GARCÍA-REIDY
3 Gridded Fascinations: Early Modern Drama's Geometric Synthesis
JOHN SLATER
Part Two: Stages of Science
4 Curing the Malady of Lovesickness: Medicine and Physicians in Early Spanish Theatre
JULIO VÉLEZ-SAINZ
5 Poison(ing) and Spanish Comedia
LOURDES ALBUIXECH
6 The Soul under Siege: Strategy and Neostoicism in Calderón de la Barca's El sitio de Bredá
STEPHEN RUPP
Part Three: Performing Numbers
7 Figures of Arithmetic: Numeracy, Calculation, and Accounting in the Comedia
ELVIRA VILCHES
8 Automatons and the Early Modern Drama of Skepticism
SETH KIMMEL
9 Daedalean Epistemology: Staging the Labyrinth of Knowledge in Velázquez's Las Hilanderas and Calderón de la Barca's Los tres mayores prodigios
MATTHEW G. ANCELL
Conclusion: Looking Behind the Curtain: Clues of Early Modern Spanish Science
MARÍA M. PORTUONDO
Contributors