Much Ado About Numbers
Much Ado About Numbers
Shakespeare's Mathematical Life and Times
Eastaway, Rob
The Experiment LLC
04/2026
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Contents
Prologue
Shakespearean Numbers
A Playfulness with Numbers
Huge Numbers
Much Ado About Nothing
School Life
Math at Grammar School
The Book of Arithmetic
The Seven Liberal Arts
Girls and Math
Sport and Games
Anyone for Tennis? Or Football?
Hazard and Risk
Nine Men's Morris
Noddy, Primero, and Other Card Games
Money
Shakespearean Currency
Shakespeare the Accountant?
Borrowing, Lending, and Interest
Measure for Measure
An Era of Imprecise Measurements
Length and Distance
Telling the Time
Navigation and Maps
Music, Rhythm, and Dance
The Measure of Dance
Patterns of Verse
Rhyming Patterns
Music as a Mathematical Subject
The Music of the Spheres
Astronomy and Astrology
Telescopes and Horoscopes
Ruled by the Seven Planets
The Science of Astronomy
The New Calendar
Colors and the Rainbow
Rainbows in Shakespeare's World
Shakespeare's Colors
The Emerging Math of Color
Putting Ink to Paper
Writing with a Quill
Writing with Ink
Arrival of the Pencil
Printing and Publishing
Mathematics, Magic, and Witchcraft
John Dee, Mathematician and Magician
The Book of Magic
Think of a Number
Codes and Conspiracy
Secret Messages and Chronograms
Acrostics and Other Hidden Words
Numerology and Codes
Shakespeare's Calculator
Appendix: Mathematical Asides
Tactics for Winning at Three Men's Morris
The Pythagorean Octave and Dorian Mode
Shakespeare, Orange, and Sir Isaac Newton
Philip Henslowe's Diary
Francis Bacon's Cipher System
A Shakespeare/Historic Event Timeline
Timeline of Shakespeare's Plays and Poems
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Picture Credits
Index
Prologue
Shakespearean Numbers
A Playfulness with Numbers
Huge Numbers
Much Ado About Nothing
School Life
Math at Grammar School
The Book of Arithmetic
The Seven Liberal Arts
Girls and Math
Sport and Games
Anyone for Tennis? Or Football?
Hazard and Risk
Nine Men's Morris
Noddy, Primero, and Other Card Games
Money
Shakespearean Currency
Shakespeare the Accountant?
Borrowing, Lending, and Interest
Measure for Measure
An Era of Imprecise Measurements
Length and Distance
Telling the Time
Navigation and Maps
Music, Rhythm, and Dance
The Measure of Dance
Patterns of Verse
Rhyming Patterns
Music as a Mathematical Subject
The Music of the Spheres
Astronomy and Astrology
Telescopes and Horoscopes
Ruled by the Seven Planets
The Science of Astronomy
The New Calendar
Colors and the Rainbow
Rainbows in Shakespeare's World
Shakespeare's Colors
The Emerging Math of Color
Putting Ink to Paper
Writing with a Quill
Writing with Ink
Arrival of the Pencil
Printing and Publishing
Mathematics, Magic, and Witchcraft
John Dee, Mathematician and Magician
The Book of Magic
Think of a Number
Codes and Conspiracy
Secret Messages and Chronograms
Acrostics and Other Hidden Words
Numerology and Codes
Shakespeare's Calculator
Appendix: Mathematical Asides
Tactics for Winning at Three Men's Morris
The Pythagorean Octave and Dorian Mode
Shakespeare, Orange, and Sir Isaac Newton
Philip Henslowe's Diary
Francis Bacon's Cipher System
A Shakespeare/Historic Event Timeline
Timeline of Shakespeare's Plays and Poems
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Picture Credits
Index
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Contents
Prologue
Shakespearean Numbers
A Playfulness with Numbers
Huge Numbers
Much Ado About Nothing
School Life
Math at Grammar School
The Book of Arithmetic
The Seven Liberal Arts
Girls and Math
Sport and Games
Anyone for Tennis? Or Football?
Hazard and Risk
Nine Men's Morris
Noddy, Primero, and Other Card Games
Money
Shakespearean Currency
Shakespeare the Accountant?
Borrowing, Lending, and Interest
Measure for Measure
An Era of Imprecise Measurements
Length and Distance
Telling the Time
Navigation and Maps
Music, Rhythm, and Dance
The Measure of Dance
Patterns of Verse
Rhyming Patterns
Music as a Mathematical Subject
The Music of the Spheres
Astronomy and Astrology
Telescopes and Horoscopes
Ruled by the Seven Planets
The Science of Astronomy
The New Calendar
Colors and the Rainbow
Rainbows in Shakespeare's World
Shakespeare's Colors
The Emerging Math of Color
Putting Ink to Paper
Writing with a Quill
Writing with Ink
Arrival of the Pencil
Printing and Publishing
Mathematics, Magic, and Witchcraft
John Dee, Mathematician and Magician
The Book of Magic
Think of a Number
Codes and Conspiracy
Secret Messages and Chronograms
Acrostics and Other Hidden Words
Numerology and Codes
Shakespeare's Calculator
Appendix: Mathematical Asides
Tactics for Winning at Three Men's Morris
The Pythagorean Octave and Dorian Mode
Shakespeare, Orange, and Sir Isaac Newton
Philip Henslowe's Diary
Francis Bacon's Cipher System
A Shakespeare/Historic Event Timeline
Timeline of Shakespeare's Plays and Poems
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Picture Credits
Index
Prologue
Shakespearean Numbers
A Playfulness with Numbers
Huge Numbers
Much Ado About Nothing
School Life
Math at Grammar School
The Book of Arithmetic
The Seven Liberal Arts
Girls and Math
Sport and Games
Anyone for Tennis? Or Football?
Hazard and Risk
Nine Men's Morris
Noddy, Primero, and Other Card Games
Money
Shakespearean Currency
Shakespeare the Accountant?
Borrowing, Lending, and Interest
Measure for Measure
An Era of Imprecise Measurements
Length and Distance
Telling the Time
Navigation and Maps
Music, Rhythm, and Dance
The Measure of Dance
Patterns of Verse
Rhyming Patterns
Music as a Mathematical Subject
The Music of the Spheres
Astronomy and Astrology
Telescopes and Horoscopes
Ruled by the Seven Planets
The Science of Astronomy
The New Calendar
Colors and the Rainbow
Rainbows in Shakespeare's World
Shakespeare's Colors
The Emerging Math of Color
Putting Ink to Paper
Writing with a Quill
Writing with Ink
Arrival of the Pencil
Printing and Publishing
Mathematics, Magic, and Witchcraft
John Dee, Mathematician and Magician
The Book of Magic
Think of a Number
Codes and Conspiracy
Secret Messages and Chronograms
Acrostics and Other Hidden Words
Numerology and Codes
Shakespeare's Calculator
Appendix: Mathematical Asides
Tactics for Winning at Three Men's Morris
The Pythagorean Octave and Dorian Mode
Shakespeare, Orange, and Sir Isaac Newton
Philip Henslowe's Diary
Francis Bacon's Cipher System
A Shakespeare/Historic Event Timeline
Timeline of Shakespeare's Plays and Poems
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Picture Credits
Index
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shakespeare;william;shakespearean;mathematical;math;science;theater;theatre;playwriting;numbers;historical;history;history gifts;history buffs;british history;english history;european history;england;britain;british literature;literary criticism;classic plays;astronomy;probability;music;multiplication;tudors;tudor period;elizabethan;elizabethan era;royals;royalty;social history;high school;writing;rob eastaway;much ado about nothing;king lear;hamlet;macbeth;romeo and juliet
