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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Henry S Turner |
ISBN: | 0199287384 9780199287383 |
OCLC Number: | 123243894 |
Awards: | Winner of Honorable Mention 2007 Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize awarded by the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. |
Description: | xv, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- I. Diagram, image, icon -- Practical knowledge and the poetics of geometry -- Sir Philip Sidney and the practical imagination -- Noun, foot, and measured line -- II. Stage, wall, scene, plot -- Theatre as a spatial art -- The topographic stage -- Dramatic form and the projective intelligence -- Ben Jonson's scenography. |
Responsibility: | Henry S. Turner. |
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Abstract:
Examines the history of English dramatic form and its relationship to the mathematics, technology, and early scientific thought during the Renaissance period. This book demonstrates how the drama of Shakespeare, Dekker, Jonson, and others cannot be explained without reference to early scientific thought.
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Henry S. Turner's magisterial book The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630 is simultaneously a traditional New Historicist enterprise and a project that moves early modern theater scholarship in a new direction...a tour de force well worth slow and thoughtful reading. Read more...
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