A Brave New World of Knowledge: Shakespeare's the Tempest and Early Modern Epistemology

by B.J. Sokol

This study of an extraordinary work of dramatic literature addresses questions on the nature and dissemination of the â scientific revolution.â It uncovers a number of previously little appreciated connections of The Tempest with specific
problems or advances of knowledge, thus showing that the play reflected innovative proto-scientific modes of confronting the physical, biological, and human realms.

274 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2003

Reviews

[M.L. Rio · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sokol has some compelling ideas, but why does he keep quoting Freud like it's 1965? This book was published in 2003, well after the point at which the rest of academia had outgrown that particular preoccupation (thank God).