The Science of Shakespeare (55 page)

“Edmond is the embodiment…”
Bate, p. 65.

“dangerously attractive”
Harold Bloom,
King Lear in the 20th Century
, p. 314.

“Lear's resort to natural, rather than divine…”
Elton,
King Lear and the Gods
, p. 220.

“Lear aptly summarizes…”
Halio, p. 167.

“is like his brother Edmond…”
Bevington,
Shakespeare's Ideas
, p. 172.

14. THE DISAPPEARING GODS

“As flies to wanton boys…”
King Lear
(4.1.36).

“… his multitudinous powers”
Bradley, p. 200.

“for the immediate future…”
quoted in Halio, p. 54.

“natural ideas of justice”
quoted in Halio, p. 24.

“horror is piled upon horror…”
Wilson, p. 120.

“how much misery…”
McAlindon, p. 181.

even very young children
See Paul Bloom, “The Moral Life of Babies.”

as one psychologist puts it
This summary of Lerner's work is from Furnham, p. 795.

“the BJW seems to provide…”
Furnham, p. 796.

“threatens deeply held beliefs…”
Feinberg and Willer, p. 34.

“a battleground over which…”
Bevington,
Shakespeare's Ideas
, p. 169.

“essentially moral, dictating altruism…”
McAlindon, p. 173.

“… in which the wicked prosper”
quoted in Bradley, p. 252.

“pose disturbing questions…”
Bevington,
Shakespeare's Ideas
, p. 171.

“a gesture, however inadequate…”
Greenblatt,
Will in the World
, p. 180.

“What is truly frightening…”
Bevington,
Shakespeare's Ideas
, pp. 169–70.

“the stage panache…”
Bate, p. 308.

“an intrinsically modern disposition”
/
“roughly contemporaneous…”
Hyman, pp. xviii, 2.

“the notion of a worldview…”
Hyman, p. 4.

A similar piece of legislation
The laws are quoted in Berman, pp. 48–49.

“must have flourished in…”
Bertram, p. 167

“… were deeply upsetting”
Greenblatt,
The Swerve
, p. 252.

“to exorcise atomism”
Greenblatt,
The Swerve
, p. 250.

“whether human souls…”
quoted in Allen, p. 56.

“great many in England…”
quoted in Buckley, p. 30; I have modernized the spelling.

“Others grant God to be…”
quoted in Buckley, pp. 65–66.

“… no simple morality play”
Brigden, p. 308.

“That which nourishes me…”
from Brigden, p. 309.

“that Moses was but a Jugler…”
quoted in Buckley, p. 130.

“no evidence of religious incredulity”
Buckley, p. 146.

“Not inferior to any of the former…”
quoted in Buckley, p. 91.

“Marlowe is able to show more…”
quoted in Marlowe, p. xii.

“a temper of mind…”
Buckley, p. 129.

“… and followed Machiavelli”
Bertram, p. 170.

a French poet … named Théophile de Viau
Grayling, p. 121.

“taken to be expressive of…”
Grayling, p. 122.

“religion as terrified sadism…”
Mallin, p. 9.

“Aaron arranges things…”
Eric Mallin, author interview, June 14, 2013.

“… particularly in his tragedies”
Eric Mallin, author interview, June 14, 2013.

“their presence is…”
/
“… devastatingly silent”
Halio, p. 15; Greenblatt,
Will in the World
, p. 357.

“with the death of the good…”
Elton,
King Lear and the Gods
, p. 337.

“The gods perdie doe reckon…”
quoted in Halio, p. 207.

“Lear's disillusionment…”
Elton,
King Lear and the Gods
, p. 230.

“must have at least evoked…”
McAlindon, p. 195.

“Human beings are here left…”
McAlindon, p. 195.

“essentially a godless document…”
Eric Mallin, author interview, June 14, 2013.

“pagan atheist and libertine naturalist”
Harold
Bloom,
King Lear
/
Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages,
p. 317.

“fraught with danger…”
Elton,
King Lear and the Gods
, p. 337.

“For Shakespeare, in the matter of…”
quoted in Mallin, p. 6.

“… strikes me as pretty modern”
Eric Mallin, author interview, June 14, 2013.

“entirely secular…”
/
“He is simply saying…”
McGinn, pp. 15, 185–6.

“justice is entirely man-made”
Colin McGinn, author interview, March 12, 2012.

“disturbingly amoral”
Orgel, p. 41.

“seems at once Catholic, Protestant…”
/
“William Shakespeare was…”
Greenblattt,
Will in the World
, pp. 103, 113.

“… faith and scepticism”
Bate, p. 12.

“… but similar to a clock”
quoted in Shapin, p. 33.

“… a great piece of clock-work”
quoted in Shapin, p. 34.

“no difference between…”
quoted in Shapin, p. 32.

“it is not less natural for a clock…”
quoted in Shapin, p. 32.

“nothing but a statue…”
quoted in Grayling, p. 158.

“… configuration of its wheels”
quoted in Maisano, “Descartes avec Milton,” p. 38.

“depending on the various…”
quoted in Grayling, p. 158.

“a vehicle for ‘taking the wonder out'…”
Shapin, p. 36.

As Scott Maisano points out
Maisano, “Shakespeare's science fictions,” pp. 102–3. Note that Maisano develops these arguments further in “Infinite Gesture.”

Shakespeare may well have had
Maisano, “Shakespeare's science fictions,” p. 80

“Any sufficiently advanced technology…”
http://edge.org/response-detail/11150
.

“… forward-looking speculations”
Maisano, “Shakespeare's science fictions,” p. vi.

“… inventing science fiction”
Nuttall, p. 361.

“When I consider the short duration…”
Pascal's
Pensées
, accessed online at
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm#p_205
.

“… it also seems pointless”
Weinberg, p. 154.

CONCLUSION

“They say miracles are past…”
All's Well That Ends Well
(2.3.1).

“no longer had its origins…”
Findlen, p. 669.

Howard Margolis lists … the discoveries
Margolis, p. 5.

“you will learn more about…”
quoted in Bouwsma, p. 66.

“surpass by far any Latin and Greek…”
quoted in Hale, p. 589.

“one of the most vivid…”
Shapin, p. 20.

“… central, immovable earth”
Stimson, p. 50.

“was no amateur of…”
Boas Hall, p. 140.

“no sign of [the Copernican] revolution…”
McAlindon, p. 4.

“among Shakespeare's myriad…”
Hotson, p. 123.

“Even if Shakespeare had…”
Levy,
Starry Night
, p. 69; see also Maisano, “Shakespeare's Last Act,” p. 404.

“… the new heliocentric astronomy”
Bate, p. 62.

“… by the Copernican revolution”
Shapiro, p. 299.

“laments for a dying world…”
Byard, pp. 122–3.

“And freely men confesse…”
quoted in Byard, p. 123.

“an intelligent student of science” / “The discoveries of Galileo…”
Johnson,
Astronomical Thought
, p. 243.

Donne had connections …
Byard, p. 122.

“For of Meridians, and Parallels…”
quoted in Byard, p. 123.

“Only the Earth doth stand…”
quoted in Cheney, p. 189.

“a proficient and intimate acquaintance…”
Orchard, p. 52.

“By the end of the 17th century…”
Byard, p. 129.

applied … physics to the Last Judgment
See Allen, p. 101.

“a late-medieval worldview…”
Stephen Greenblatt, author interview, May 1, 2012.

“is actually surprisingly alert…”
Stephen Greenblatt, author interview, May 1, 2012.

“is neither ignorant nor indifferent…”
Scott Maisano, author interview, June 4, 2012.

“the privileging of scientism…”
Mazzio, p. 1.

“… of science over literature”
quoted in Mazzio, p. 18.

“… a Shackleton or an Einstein”
Wilson, p. 124.

 

Bibliography

SHAKESPEARE EDITIONS CITED

NOTE:
Quotations from Shakespeare (along with the cited line numbers) are taken from the editions marked with a
. In all other cases, they are from
The Arden Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Revised Edition
, edited by Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, and David Scott Kastan. London: Methuen Drama, 2001.

Bate, Jonathan, ed.
Cymbeline
. The RSC Shakespeare. New York: Modern Library, 2011.

Bevington, David, ed.
Henry IV, Part 2
. The Oxford Shakespeare. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

Bevington, David, ed.
Troilus and Cressida
. The Arden Shakespeare. London: Thomson Learning, 2006.

Braunmuller, A. R., ed.
Macbeth
. Updated edition. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.