Discovering Discovery in Restoration London; Or, the Theatre Under the Microscope

Focusing on Robert Hooke's spectacular 1665 Micrographia and Thomas Shadwell's 1676 satire of Hooke and other members of the early Royal Society, The Virtuoso , this essay argues that the concept of discovery was central to managing the challenges of technologically assisted perception. In...

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Published inELH Vol. 90; no. 4; pp. 1007 - 1034
Main Author Lash, Alexander Paulsson
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.12.2023
Subjects
Behn, Aphra (1640-1689)
British & Irish literature
Dramatists
engelska
English
English literature
Epistemology
Knowledge
Science
Theater
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Summary:Focusing on Robert Hooke's spectacular 1665 Micrographia and Thomas Shadwell's 1676 satire of Hooke and other members of the early Royal Society, The Virtuoso , this essay argues that the concept of discovery was central to managing the challenges of technologically assisted perception. In Hooke's accounts of how he discovered new objects in his microscope, Shadwell discovered a language for thinking through how characters could be known inside the new scenic stage of the Restoration theaters.
ISSN:0013-8304
1080-6547
1080-6547
DOI:10.1353/elh.2023.a914014