The english renaissance stage: geometry, poetics, and the practical spatial arts 1580-1630

This book demonstrates how the drama of Shakespeare, Dekker, Jonson, and others cannot be adequately explained without reference to early scientific thought. It recovers the historical moment when playwrights collaborated with carpenters, surveyors, and engineers, and poets borrowed ideas about literary form from the field of practical mathematics. INDICE: 1: Introduction; Part 1: Diagram, Image, Icon; 2: Practical Knowledge and the Poetics of Geometry; 3: Sir Philip Sidney and the Practical Imagination; 4: Noun, Foot, and Measured Line; Part 2: Stage, Wall, Scene, Plot; 5: Theatre as a Spatial Art; 6: The Topographic Stage; 7: Dramatic Form and the Projective Intelligence; 8: Ben Jonson's Scenography

• ISBN: 978-0-19-959545-7
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 344
• Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés