Astronomical Revolutions and Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (1996)
Payne-Gaposchkin and others have suggested that Shakespeare's "Hamlet" shows evidence of the bard's awareness of the astronomical revolutions of the sixteenth century. I summarize major arguments and note that the play's themes recur in modern astronomy teaching and research.
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Work Title Astronomical Revolutions and Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (1996) Access Creators - Peter D. Usher
Keyword - Hamlet
- astronomy
- revolution
- Shakespeare
License CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) Work Type Research Paper Deposited July 30, 2019 Versions
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