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Alistair Gentry, christopher marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Elizabethan science, Ian Mortimer, John Dee, Thomas Hariot
Remember this post? And Alistair Gentry‘s video about Elizabethan metaphysics, and the math teacher worrying about what seemed a proximity of science and magic?
“I’m alarmed,” he wrote in a comment. “Must I consider myself akin to devils, ghosts and magic?”
Well no – but he certainly would have, had he been an Elizabethan mathematician. Or, at the very least, he wouldn’t have been especially alarmed to consider his studies akin to magic. Certainly any number of his contemporaries – not to mention several religious authorities would have thought so, with a potential array of more or less dangerous consequences. But it is safe to assume that the mathematician himself wouldn’t have disagreed at all… Continue reading
I must say that I greatly miss my mentor.
Shall we call it field research?
Did you know that the Royal Shakespeare Company has not one, but three fabulous blogs?
Last night’s meeting of Ad Alta Voce, my not-quite-reading-group, had a theme of “Fictions, Lies and Play-acting”. In answer, among other things, I read from Sheridan’s The Critic, and found it as lovely as I remembered from years ago…
I’ve always liked 
I discovered the existence of this little book back in December, and ordered it on the instant… After which it took more than a month for it to arrive – thanks to the dismal Italian post service – but it was well worth the wait. 
– published by the 
I’m sure we all think that our own genre is unlike all others…
Scribblings 