Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain PDF
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SCIENCE ON STAGE IN EARLY MODERN SPAIN This page intentionally left blank Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain EDITED BY ENRIQUE GARCÍA SANTO-TOMÁS UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London © University of Toronto Press 2019 Toronto Buffalo London utorontopress.com Printed in the U.S.A. ISBN 978-1-4875-0405-2 Printed on acid-free paper with vegetable-based inks. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Science on stage in early modern Spain / edited by Enrique García Santo-Tomás. (Toronto Iberic ; 38) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-4875-0405-2 (hardcover) 1. Spanish drama – Classical period, 1500–1700 – History and criticism. 2. Theater – Spain – History – 16th century. 3. Theater – Spain – History – 17th century. 4. Science – Spain – History – 16th century. 5. Science – Spain – History – 17th century. 6. Science in literature. I. García Santo- Tomás, Enrique, editor II. Series: Toronto Iberic; 38 PQ6105.S35 2019 862’.309 C2018-905256-2 University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario. Funded by the Financé par le Government gouvernement of Canada du Canada To Mercedes Alcalá-Galán and Steven Hutchinson, in friendship This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Illustrations ix Introduction: Great Theatres of the World 3 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 25 ryan szpiech 2 The Technological Environment of the Early Modern Spanish Stage 58 alejandro garcía-reidy 3 Gridded Fascinations: Early Modern Drama’s Geometric Synthesis 79 john slater Part Two: Stages of Science 4 Curing the Malady of Lovesickness: Medicine and Physicians in Early Spanish Theatre 103 julio vélez-sainz viii Contents 5 Poison(ing) and Spanish Comedia 123 lourdes albuixech 6 The Soul under Siege: Strategy and Neostoicism in Calderón de la Barca’s El sitio de Bredá 151 stephen rupp Part Three: Performing Numbers 7 Figures of Arithmetic: Numeracy, Calculation, and Accounting in the Comedia 179 elvira vilches 8 Automatons and the Early Modern Drama of Skepticism 210 seth kimmel 9 Daedalean Epistemology: Staging the Labyrinth of Knowledge in Velázquez’s Las Hilanderas and Calderón de la Barca’s L os tres mayores prodigios 231 matthew g. ancell Conclusion: Looking Behind the Curtain: Clues of Early Modern Spanish Science 250 maría m. portuondo Contributors 275 Illustrations 1.1 Biblioteca de El Escorial, Ms. D-I-2, fol. 12v (detail). 44 1.2 Uppsala University Library, Copernicana 4 (1), fols. 47v–48r. 49 2.1 Sketch of the Montería de Sevilla (1691) 64 7.1 Juan de Pareja, The Calling of Saint Matthew (1661) 196 9.1 Diego Velázquez, Las hilanderas (ca. 1644–8) 233
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