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Astrology in the Elizabethan Era
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Astrology
in the Elizabethan Era and Medieval Times
William Shakespeare and Astrology
"born under Saturn . . . I cannot hide what I am: I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no man's jests . . . " (I, iii, 9-13)
"My father named me Autolycus; who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles." (Iv, iii, 24-6)
Planet "Mars" References
"dry with rage and extreme toil" (Henry IV Part I, I, iii, 31)
"the fiery" Tybalt (as Benvolio dubs him--I, i, 116)
- Plays have over 100 mentions of astrology and zodiac
- Several characters ruled by planets
King Lear Quotes
Astrologists
- "These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us." Gloucester
- "We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity ... My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's Tail" Edmund
John Dee
Guido Bonatti
Queen Elizabeth's court astrologer
1527 – 1608
13th Century
History of European Astrology
Significant astrological events of the 10th-15th centuries
12th Century
14th Century
10th Century
- 7 distinct areas education
- Transmission required simulation
- Translation of Arabic works
Elizabethan vs. Modern views on Astrology
Modern
Elizabethan
- Entertainment
- Constellations
- Horoscope
- Medical procedures and moon
- Islamic astrology introduced to Christian Europe
- Medical practice
- Combined
- Base of science
- Base of reason
- Used for medicine
- Dictate time
- Solid predictions
- Supernatural
- Magic
15th Century
13th Century
11th Century
The Types/Uses of Astrology
- Science (Medicine)
- Calendars
- Horoscope
- Stars control everything
- Natal Astrology
- Electional Astrology
- Medical Astrology
- Geocentrism
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