SUMMARY
GALILEO GALILEI
(A Comedy of Two Acts)
by Dr. Mehmet Murat İldan
In Act I, Scene I of this two-act play, we see two men watching children playing near the house where young Galilei lives, observing the inventiveness of the children and the attitude of the Inquisition towards new ideas.
In Scene II, Galilei’s parents express their disappointment in their son’s choice of mathemathics and physics instead of medicine and in his “dangerous” interest in strange experiments.
Scene III shows two scholars having a discussion with Galile, the scholars defending the church and dogmatic ideas, Galile being on the side of the new science and experiments.
In Scene IV, we see students of different beliefs, like the Ptolemian, Aristotelian and Aristarchean, discussing the old and the new theories about the universe. Then an astrologer joins them. After hearing his dogmatic ideas about the universe, the students decide to visit Galile.
In Act II, Scene I, Galile defends his new invention, the sky telescope, against a Mocking Nobleman. The Priest condemns the new device but the Sailor appreciates it, saying that it will be very useful in navigation.
In Scene II, we see two Jesuits in a graveyard, waiting for the dead body to be buried and in the meantime discussing Galile’s new invention.
Scene III opens with a dialogue between Galile and the Clown of the Duke, to whom Galile came to present his new “magnifier”. In this “amusing” dialogue we become aware of the different functions of this new device.
In Scene IV of Act II, a Monk has come to see Galile in his house in Florence. From their conversation we learn that the Inquisition has taken a decision to collect Galile’s book. Although his book has been banned, it has already become popular, being read by large masses of people, and even the Monk has now turned against the church and the Pope.
Scene V takes place in a street in Rome. People from different walks of life, like a Tailor, a Farrier, a Merchant, a Poet, and a Painter are talking about Galile’s invention, voicing their opinions for and against it. Galile has denied his new “finding” to save his life, but we know that truth will triumph and the portrait the Painter wants to make of him will make him immortal.
GALILEO GALILEI
(A Comedy of Two Acts)
by Dr. Mehmet Murat İldan
In Act I, Scene I of this two-act play, we see two men watching children playing near the house where young Galilei lives, observing the inventiveness of the children and the attitude of the Inquisition towards new ideas.
In Scene II, Galilei’s parents express their disappointment in their son’s choice of mathemathics and physics instead of medicine and in his “dangerous” interest in strange experiments.
Scene III shows two scholars having a discussion with Galile, the scholars defending the church and dogmatic ideas, Galile being on the side of the new science and experiments.
In Scene IV, we see students of different beliefs, like the Ptolemian, Aristotelian and Aristarchean, discussing the old and the new theories about the universe. Then an astrologer joins them. After hearing his dogmatic ideas about the universe, the students decide to visit Galile.
In Act II, Scene I, Galile defends his new invention, the sky telescope, against a Mocking Nobleman. The Priest condemns the new device but the Sailor appreciates it, saying that it will be very useful in navigation.
In Scene II, we see two Jesuits in a graveyard, waiting for the dead body to be buried and in the meantime discussing Galile’s new invention.
Scene III opens with a dialogue between Galile and the Clown of the Duke, to whom Galile came to present his new “magnifier”. In this “amusing” dialogue we become aware of the different functions of this new device.
In Scene IV of Act II, a Monk has come to see Galile in his house in Florence. From their conversation we learn that the Inquisition has taken a decision to collect Galile’s book. Although his book has been banned, it has already become popular, being read by large masses of people, and even the Monk has now turned against the church and the Pope.
Scene V takes place in a street in Rome. People from different walks of life, like a Tailor, a Farrier, a Merchant, a Poet, and a Painter are talking about Galile’s invention, voicing their opinions for and against it. Galile has denied his new “finding” to save his life, but we know that truth will triumph and the portrait the Painter wants to make of him will make him immortal.
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