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Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare / Angus Fletcher.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674023086
  • 9780674027114
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321/.30936
LOC classification:
  • PR535.S33 -- F55 2007eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Galileo's Metaphor -- Chapter 2. The Theme of Motion -- Chapter 3. On Drama, Poetry, and Movement -- Chapter 4. Marlowe Invents the Deadline -- Chapter 5. The Defense of the Interim -- Chapter 6. Structure of an Epitaph -- Chapter 7. Donne's Apocryphal Wit -- Chapter 8. Milton and the Moons of Jupiter -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: This focused but far-reaching work by the distinguished scholar Angus Fletcher reveals how early modern science and English poetry were in many ways components of one process: discovering the secrets of motion. Beginning with the achievement of Galileo, Time, Space, and Motion identifies the problem of motion as the central cultural issue of the time, pursued through the poetry of the age, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Ben Jonson and Milton.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674027114

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Galileo's Metaphor -- Chapter 2. The Theme of Motion -- Chapter 3. On Drama, Poetry, and Movement -- Chapter 4. Marlowe Invents the Deadline -- Chapter 5. The Defense of the Interim -- Chapter 6. Structure of an Epitaph -- Chapter 7. Donne's Apocryphal Wit -- Chapter 8. Milton and the Moons of Jupiter -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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This focused but far-reaching work by the distinguished scholar Angus Fletcher reveals how early modern science and English poetry were in many ways components of one process: discovering the secrets of motion. Beginning with the achievement of Galileo, Time, Space, and Motion identifies the problem of motion as the central cultural issue of the time, pursued through the poetry of the age, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Ben Jonson and Milton.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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