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
... Readers interested in the history of mathematics and early scientific thought in the context of English humanism, for instance, will find Chapters 2 and 3 most relevant; those interested in the history of urbanization and semiotics will ...
... Readers interested in the history of mathematics and early scientific thought in the context of English humanism, for instance, will find Chapters 2 and 3 most relevant; those interested in the history of urbanization and semiotics will ...
Page x
... readers for the Press offered many helpful and sometimes sceptical suggestions, for which they have my thanks. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Sara Friedemann Uckelman, Xochitl Gilkeson, Hillary Higgins, Sara Phillips, Cody Reis ...
... readers for the Press offered many helpful and sometimes sceptical suggestions, for which they have my thanks. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Sara Friedemann Uckelman, Xochitl Gilkeson, Hillary Higgins, Sara Phillips, Cody Reis ...
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... reader, Geometry is invoked to authorize the 'show' that follows and to distinguish it from lesser illusions: With Theorm's mixt and demonstrations rare, Such as in hiddan. FiG. 1.1. Title page, Arthur Hopton, Speculum Topographicum; or ...
... reader, Geometry is invoked to authorize the 'show' that follows and to distinguish it from lesser illusions: With Theorm's mixt and demonstrations rare, Such as in hiddan. FiG. 1.1. Title page, Arthur Hopton, Speculum Topographicum; or ...
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... reader–viewer, since it represents these places truthfully and without conjuring or trickery, through theorems and demonstrations that silence any 'Criticke humours' which might doubt its authority. In Horatian language worthy of one of ...
... reader–viewer, since it represents these places truthfully and without conjuring or trickery, through theorems and demonstrations that silence any 'Criticke humours' which might doubt its authority. In Horatian language worthy of one of ...
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... readers. In the sixteenth century both poetics and geometry began to enjoy a new status as socially useful kinds of knowledge and seemed to offer insights into moral, social, or natural problems that more established epistemologies ...
... readers. In the sixteenth century both poetics and geometry began to enjoy a new status as socially useful kinds of knowledge and seemed to offer insights into moral, social, or natural problems that more established epistemologies ...
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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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