La pièce Man in the Moone de Francis Godwin et celle de Margaret Cavendish, Blazing World, décrivent des mondes nouveaux qui dérivent de l’idée de paradis et qui expérimentent avec les limites spatiales et temporelles. En combinant la nouveauté et une connaissance actuelle afin de construire un paradis imaginaire et un protagoniste qui obtient…[Read more]

In this essay, I use the glass belly or vessel as a framework for examining the intersection of science, performance, and gender in the early modern period. I begin with the example of the glass belly because of how its form and functions intersect these areas of inquiry through early modern alchemy, which I argue can be examined *as* science in…[Read more]

Taking Shakespeare’s unique use of the term “discandying” as a starting point, this essay argues that Shakespeare’s preoccupation with food preservation in Antony and Cleopatra extends and complicates a tradition interested in preservation more broadly construed, a tradition represented and embodied by the figure of Cleopatra as a medical, gynecol…[Read more]