"Optics"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc1929/
Author:
	Crane, Mary Thomas.
Type:
	Book Chapter
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	Turner, Early Modern Theatricality, 250–269.
:
	Turner, Early Modern Theatricality
Annotation:
	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."
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Turner, Henry S.
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Tempest
WSB Update:
	Spring 2015
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc1929