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TY  - CHAP
T2  - Turner, Early Modern Theatricality
SP  - 250-269
ID  - bbbc1929
T1  - "Optics"
AU  - Crane, Mary Thomas
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2013
LA  - English
AB  - Examines theatrical use of optics in Tempest. Argues that early modern plays employed "theatrical technology that was deeply ambivalent about its own implication in visual deception and that tended to create illusions verbally rather than visually." Notes that Tempest "is as ambivalent about art as it is about science, questioning both the ethical implications of [Prospero's] manipulative technology and also his claims that human learning, derived from books, can control nature."
ER  -