Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Introduction: Great Theatres of the World 1
5. Part One: Technologies of Knowledge
6. 1. From Mesopotamia to Madrid: The Legacy of Ancient and Medieval Science in Early Modern Spain 25
7. 2. The Technological Environment of the Early Modern Spanish Stage 58
8. 3. Gridded Fascinations: Early Modern Drama’s Geometric Synthesis 79
9. Part Two: Stages of Science
10. 4. Curing the Malady of Lovesickness: Medicine and Physicians in Early Spanish Theatre 103
11. 5. Poison(ing) and Spanish Comedia 123
12. 6. The Soul under Siege: Strategy and Neostoicism in Calderón de la Barca’s El sitio de Bredá 151
13. Part Three: Performing Numbers
14. 7. Figures of Arithmetic: Numeracy, Calculation, and Accounting in the Comedia 179
15. 8. Automatons and the Early Modern Drama of Skepticism 210
16. 9. Daedalean Epistemology: Staging the Labyrinth of Knowledge in Velázquez’s Las Hilanderas and Calderón de la Barca’s Los tres mayores prodigios 231
17. Conclusion: Looking Behind the Curtain: Clues of Early Modern Spanish Science 250
18. Contributors 275