The English Renaissance stage
Subtitle: geometry, poetics, and the practical spatial arts 1580-1630
By: Henry S. Turner.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780199287383
Subjects: Theater -- England -- 16th century -- History and criticism; Theater -- England -- 17th century -- History and criticism; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Description: "Drawing on entirely new evidence, The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630 examines the history of English dramatic form and its relationship to mathematics, technology, and early scientific thought during the Renaissance period. The book demonstrates how practical modes of thinking that were typical of the sixteenth century resulted in new genres of plays and a new vocabulary for problems of poetic representation. In the epistemological moment the book recovers, we find new ideas about form and language that would become central to Renaissance literary discourse; in this same moment, too, we find new ways of thinking about the relationship between theory and practice that are typical of modernity, new attitudes towards spatial representation, and a new interest in both poetics and mathematics as distinctive ways of producing knowledge about the world."--BOOK JACKET.