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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... analysis of the habits of thought that made theatrical representation possible in the first place to early-modern playwrights, and one undertaken in light of the many theoretical and methodological developments of the last thirty years ...
... analysis of the habits of thought that made theatrical representation possible in the first place to early-modern playwrights, and one undertaken in light of the many theoretical and methodological developments of the last thirty years ...
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... analysis of drama in performance tended to become subordinated to a formal analysis of power, on the one hand, or to an analysis of social contradictions mediated through symbolic form, on the other, and in this way the drama came to be ...
... analysis of drama in performance tended to become subordinated to a formal analysis of power, on the one hand, or to an analysis of social contradictions mediated through symbolic form, on the other, and in this way the drama came to be ...
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... analysis of economic problems; Spiller (2004), on poetic fiction and experiment; Wolfe (2004), on humanism and machines; Saiber (2005), on Bruno's geometrical rhetoric; and Blair (1999), a concise survey of the topic. with suspicion by ...
... analysis of economic problems; Spiller (2004), on poetic fiction and experiment; Wolfe (2004), on humanism and machines; Saiber (2005), on Bruno's geometrical rhetoric; and Blair (1999), a concise survey of the topic. with suspicion by ...
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... analysis of a play's content and relation to its historical moment must attend 14 12 Hobbes (1650): 'Poets are Painters: I would fain see another Painter draw so true, perfect, and natural a Love to the Life, and make use of nothing but ...
... analysis of a play's content and relation to its historical moment must attend 14 12 Hobbes (1650): 'Poets are Painters: I would fain see another Painter draw so true, perfect, and natural a Love to the Life, and make use of nothing but ...
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... analysis of how representation occurs across very different kinds of documents, however, we encounter an additional set of theoretical problems, since most discussions of form have sought to define the distinctiveness of 'literary ...
... analysis of how representation occurs across very different kinds of documents, however, we encounter an additional set of theoretical problems, since most discussions of form have sought to define the distinctiveness of 'literary ...
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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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