The dramatic role of astronomy in early modern drama
Keith Coston, Micah
This thesis considers the dramatic role of astronomy in early modern drama and investigates the ways that dramatists from this period used established and emerging astronomical concepts in plays and on the stage. Their borrowing and reconstituting astronomical elements corresponded to the period's interest in celestial phenomena, discovery, and cosmological significance. However, as dramatists developed an astronomical dramaturgy, they modifie...