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An Infinity of Questions: Dramatizing Science on Stage

Miranker, Emily

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2008, BA, Oberlin College, English.
My Honors thesis, An Infinity of Questions, explores the performance of science on stage using two plays: The Life of Galileo, challenging the status quo, by Bertolt Brecht and Copenhagen, examining the origins of intention, by Michael Frayn. I focus on these two plays because not only because they impress me personally, but both spring from historical events and are thematically concerned with physics and the atomic bomb. They also make an interesting juxtaposition since Galileo has a decidedly political agenda, while Copenhagen is a philosophic inquiry. I argue that these dramas are exceptional science plays because of how they literally enact the ideas that they examine and bring science to life on stage by means of modeling ideas.
Carol Tufts (Advisor)
Phyllis Gorfain (Committee Member)
Matthew Wright (Committee Member)
41 p.

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  • Miranker, E. (2008). An Infinity of Questions: Dramatizing Science on Stage [Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1212179899

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Miranker, Emily. An Infinity of Questions: Dramatizing Science on Stage. 2008. Oberlin College, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1212179899.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Miranker, Emily. "An Infinity of Questions: Dramatizing Science on Stage." Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1212179899

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)