Article ID: CBB644275132

Stars and Theatre. From Renaissance Stage Astrologers to Astronomy–Flavored Science Plays (2018)

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Theatre has a longstanding and surprising tradition of familiarity with the starry night and its investigators but alas, since Ariosto’s Negromante, Della Porta’s Lo Astrologo and the many comedias of the Golden Age of Spanish Theatre the adepts of the stars are almost invariably portrayed as tricksters, buffoons and greedy cheaters pretending to be experts of astrology and magic. Comedy is everywhere in modern Europe the only genre associated to such characters and to the study of the universe, at least until the 19th century, when farcical dramaturgy is complemented by some minor tragedies (e.g. Nievo’s pioneering Galilei, Andreev’s To the Stars, Gsantner’s Tolternicus and Ogilvie’s Hypatia) that slowly pave the way to 20th century dramas centered on science (the prototype is Brecht’s Life of Galileo). I propose a voyage through the history of theatrical astrologers/astronomers tracing the evolution of the complex relationship between stars and stage and at the same time analyzing the ascent of the contemporary science–play format where the dramaturgy either inflates becoming verbose, philosophical and sometimes ironical or tends to dissolve in a multisensory experience of cosmos, history and society called Postdramatic Theatre.

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Authors & Contributors
Rappenglück, Barbara
Samuel Shaw
Christie, James E.
Charles Avery
Robert Wenley
Rappenglück, Michael A.
Concepts
Cosmology
Science and culture
Astrology
Astronomy
Natural philosophy
Philosophy
Time Periods
Early modern
Modern
Renaissance
Medieval
Ancient
20th century
Places
Europe
Greece
China
Soviet Union
Rome (Italy)
Middle and Near East
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