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 xiii
... 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 Scenography 244 ...
... 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 Scenography 244 ...
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... imaginative, and structural problems that an action of such scope and diversity implied. In Babylon the Sultan describes to Fortunatus his collection of occult and mythological devices, from which he might choose in exchange for his ...
... imaginative, and structural problems that an action of such scope and diversity implied. In Babylon the Sultan describes to Fortunatus his collection of occult and mythological devices, from which he might choose in exchange for his ...
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... imaginative conventions of theatrical performance like the system of geometrical projection on which the map depended ... imagination to the point of implausibility, Dekker's Chorus steps forward only 'as the storie needs': successful ...
... imaginative conventions of theatrical performance like the system of geometrical projection on which the map depended ... imagination to the point of implausibility, Dekker's Chorus steps forward only 'as the storie needs': successful ...
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... imaginations we must charme, To turne that world: and (turn'd) again to part it Into large kingdoms, and within one moment ... imagination to make its fictions plausible. Indeed, geometry offered early-modern writers nothing less than an ...
... imaginations we must charme, To turne that world: and (turn'd) again to part it Into large kingdoms, and within one moment ... imagination to make its fictions plausible. Indeed, geometry offered early-modern writers nothing less than an ...
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... imaginative translation, Hopton's Geometry also 'profits'. I will confute those blind geographers That make a triple ... imagination of the early-modern period, but with little acknowledgement of its roots in practical modes of thinking ...
... imaginative translation, Hopton's Geometry also 'profits'. I will confute those blind geographers That make a triple ... imagination of the early-modern period, but with little acknowledgement of its roots in practical modes of thinking ...
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