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Article: Theaters and Encyclopedias in Early Modern Europe.(Book Review)
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- Shakespeare Studies
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- January 1, 2005
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Theaters and Encyclopedias in Early Modern Europe By William N. West Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002
One of the strengths of this history of the conjoined ideas of the encyclopedia and theater in early modern Europe is the author's ability to combine rigorous intellectual history with a sensitive and frequently illuminating account of performance. Readers will find here both an account of the origins and development of the concepts of "encyclopedia" and "theater" and an intriguing, if incomplete, rearticulation of the works of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon that parses out the interrelations between early modern philosophical and moral treatises, the ...