Introduction
Résumé
‘What is this thing called “science”?’ Sophie Chiari and Mickaël Popelard ask. In a detailed introduction which challenges the traditional literary/scientific divide and insists on the dynamic approach to the subject of ‘Shakespeare and Science’ promoted by the volume, the two editors introduce their topic. Contextualizing early modern science and showing how stagecraft and science echoed each other in Shakespeare’s England, they provide the readers with epistemological reflections on Renaissance scientific practices and discourses and present the contents of Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare.