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The English Renaissance stage : geometry, poetics, and the practical spatial arts 1580-1630

Drawing on entirely new evidence, The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630 demonstrates how the drama of Shakespeare, Dekker, Jonson, and others cannot be adequately explained without reference to early scientific thought. The book recovers almost historical moment when playwrights collaborated with carpenters, surveyors, and engineers, and poets borrowed their ideas about literary form from the field of practical. mathematics. - ;Drawing on entirely new evidence, The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts
eBook, English, 2006
Oxford University Press, New York, 2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xv, 326 pages) : illustrations
9780199287383, 9780191516030, 9786611154523, 0199287384, 0191516031, 6611154523
144618752
List of Illustrations; 1. Introduction; I . DIAGRAM, IMAGE, ICON; 2. Practical Knowledge and the Poetics of Geometry; 3. Sir Philip Sidney and the Practical Imagination; 4. Noun, Foot, and Measured Line; II. STAGE, WALL, SCENE, PLOT; 5. Theatre as a Spatial Art; 6. The Topographic Stage; 7. Dramatic Form and the Projective Intelligence; 8. Ben Jonson's Scenography; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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