Books and Arts: William Shakespeare’s plays were “populated with ideas and technologies that his audience would have recognized from contemporary life: clocks, globes, compasses, the distorting ‘perspective glass’,” writes Jennifer Rampling marking 450 years since the playwright’s birth with an essay on the science of his era. “He surely succeeded in holding up a mirror to the technological and commercial vibrancy of his own age.” ($)
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 09:00:00 +0000
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