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44 - Military Technologies

from Part IV - Science and Technology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Patricia Cahill
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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battleexplosionsfortificationgunsHenry VIhistory playsKing Johnmilitarysiegecraftwarfare
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 316 - 322
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Bennet, Jim, and Johnston, Stephen. The Geometry of War 1500–1750. Oxford: Museum of the History of Science, 1996.Google Scholar
Cahill, Patricia A. Unto the Breach: Martial Formations, Historical Trauma, and the Early Modern Stage. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Jorgensen, Paul. Shakespeare’s Military World. Berkeley: U of California P, 1956.Google Scholar
King, Ros, and Franssen, Paul J. C. M., eds. Shakespeare and War. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.Google Scholar
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