The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630OUP Oxford, 2006 M02 23 - 344 pages 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 the 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. By emphasizing the importance of theatrical performance, the book engages with continuing debates over the cultural function of the early modern stage and with scholarship on the status of modern authorship. When we consider playwrights in relation to the theatre rather than the printed book, they appear less as 'authors' than as figures whose social position and epistemological presuppositions were very similar to the craftsmen, surveyors, and engineers who began to flourish during the sixteenth century and whose mathematical knowledge made them increasingly sought after by men of wealth and power. |
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Page ix
... Sidney's Defence of Poesie, composed in approximately 1579–1582 and Elizabeth's proclamation prohibiting new urban building, issued in 1580, to Jonson's encounter with neo-Aristotelian literary theory in 1629. in ones, It is a pleasure ...
... Sidney's Defence of Poesie, composed in approximately 1579–1582 and Elizabeth's proclamation prohibiting new urban building, issued in 1580, to Jonson's encounter with neo-Aristotelian literary theory in 1629. in ones, It is a pleasure ...
Page xiii
... Sidney and the Practical Imagination 4. Noun, Foot, and Measured Line 82 114 II. STAGE, WALL, SCENE, PLOT 155 5. Theatre as a Spatial Art 6. The Topographic Stage 7. Dramatic Form and the Projective Intelligence 186 216 8. Ben Jonson's ...
... Sidney and the Practical Imagination 4. Noun, Foot, and Measured Line 82 114 II. STAGE, WALL, SCENE, PLOT 155 5. Theatre as a Spatial Art 6. The Topographic Stage 7. Dramatic Form and the Projective Intelligence 186 216 8. Ben Jonson's ...
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... Sidney or any number of Continental writers. In the 'Prologue' that he wrote for Old Fortunatus' public performance at the Rose sometime in December 1599 or early in 1600, Dekker seems to have in mind the claims for 'heroic' poetry that ...
... Sidney or any number of Continental writers. In the 'Prologue' that he wrote for Old Fortunatus' public performance at the Rose sometime in December 1599 or early in 1600, Dekker seems to have in mind the claims for 'heroic' poetry that ...
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... Sidney, and Spenser in the same breath as writers whom we would certainly never describe as 'literary' figures and whose names we may no longer recognize at all: John Dee, Thomas Harriot, John Blagrave, and Leonard Digges, those ...
... Sidney, and Spenser in the same breath as writers whom we would certainly never describe as 'literary' figures and whose names we may no longer recognize at all: John Dee, Thomas Harriot, John Blagrave, and Leonard Digges, those ...
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... Sidney composed his famous Defence and concluded it with a survey of English poets, both medieval and contemporary. As a coherent epistemology with distinctive terminology, methods of inquiry, and institutional organization, the ...
... Sidney composed his famous Defence and concluded it with a survey of English poets, both medieval and contemporary. As a coherent epistemology with distinctive terminology, methods of inquiry, and institutional organization, the ...
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The English Renaissance Stage:Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial ... Henry S. Turner No preview available - 2006 |
The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial ... Henry S. Turner No preview available - 2010 |
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