Información General

• Autores: Enrique García Santo-Tomás (coord.)
• Editores: University of Toronto, University of Toronto Press
• Año de publicación: 2019
• Colecciones: Toronto Iberic, 38
• País: Canadá
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9781487504052
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  • Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain by Enrique García Santo-Tomás

    Vicente Pérez de León

    Bulletin of Hispanic studies ( Liverpool. 2002 ), ISSN 1475-3839, ISSN-e 1478-3398, Vol. 97, Nº. 9, 2020, págs. 1021-1030

  • García Santo-Tomás, Enrique, ed. Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain. Toronto: Toronto UP, 2019. 296 pp. (ISBN: 978-1-4875-0405-2)

    Antonio Barrera-Osorio

    RILCE: Revista de filología hispánica, ISSN 0213-2370, Vol. 37, Nº 1, 2021, págs. 396-399

Resumen

• 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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Listado de artículos

• • Introduction: Great Theatres of the World

    Enrique García Santo-Tomás

    págs. 3-21

    

  • Part One: Technologies of Knowledge

    • From Mesopotamia to Madrid: The Legacy of Ancient and Medieval Science in Early Modern Spain

      Ryan Szpiech

      págs. 25-57

      

    • The Technological Environment of the Early Modern Spanish Stage

      Alejandro García-Reidy

      págs. 58-78

      

    • Gridded Fascinations: Early Modern Drama’s Geometric Synthesis

      John Slater

      págs. 79-99

      

  • Part Two: Stages of Science

    • Curing the Malady of Lovesickness: Medicine and Physicians in Early Spanish Theatre

      Julio Vélez Sainz

      págs. 103-122

      

    • Poison(ing) and Spanish Comedia

      Lourdes Albuixech

      págs. 123-150

      

    • The Soul under Siege: Strategy and Neostoicism in Calderón de la Barca’s El sitio de Bredá

      Stephen Rupp

      págs. 151-175

      

  • Part Three: Performing Numbers

    • Figures of Arithmetic: Numeracy, Calculation, and Accounting in the Comedia

      Elvira Vilches

      págs. 179-209

      

    • Automatons and the Early Modern Drama of Skepticism

      Seth Kimmel

      págs. 210-230

      

    • Daedalean Epistemology: Staging the Labyrinth of Knowledge in Velázquez’s Las Hilanderas and Calderón de la Barca’s Los tres mayores prodigios

      Matthew Ancell

      págs. 231-249

      

    • Conclusion: Looking Behind the Curtain: Clues of Early Modern Spanish Science

      María M. Portuondo

      págs. 250-274