21L.016 / 21M.616 Learning from the Past: Drama, Science, Performance, Spring 2007
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Author(s)
Henderson, Diana E.
Sonenberg, Janet
Alternative Title
Learning from the Past: Drama, Science, Performance
Date Issued
June 2007
Abstract
This class explores the creation (and creativity) of the modern scientific and cultural world through study of western Europe in the 17th century, the age of Descartes and Newton, Shakespeare, Rembrandt and Moliere. It compares period thinking to present-day debates about the scientific method, art, religion, and society. This team-taught, interdisciplinary subject draws on a wide range of literary, dramatic, historical, and scientific texts and images, and involves theatrical experimentation as well as reading, writing, researching and conversing.
Subjects
history
art and science
art vs. science
history of science
religion
natural philosophy
mathematics
literature
cosmology
physics
astronomy
alchemy
chemistry
plays
theater history
cultural studies
Shakespeare
Ford
Tate
Behn
Francis Bacon
Burton
Hobbes
Boyle
17th century
England
english history
Charles I
Charles II
Cromwell
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Literature Section
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Music and Theater Arts Section
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