The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630OUP Oxford, 23. 2. 2006 - Počet stran: 344 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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... notions of dramatic form—many of the chapters may be read as complementary pairs. 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 ...
... notions of dramatic form—many of the chapters may be read as complementary pairs. 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 ...
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... notion of 'drama' that finally derives from the conventions of the printed book, on the one hand, from the theatre and its performative conventions, on the other, conventions that largely remained untheorized during the period and which ...
... notion of 'drama' that finally derives from the conventions of the printed book, on the one hand, from the theatre and its performative conventions, on the other, conventions that largely remained untheorized during the period and which ...
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... notion of 'science' is an 9 In addition to the works cited in n. 10 and Ch. 2, see the very full survey of the historiography of science offered by Cohen (1994); Lindberg (1990); Hall (1959); Barker and Ariew (1991); Crombie (1952, 1994 ...
... notion of 'science' is an 9 In addition to the works cited in n. 10 and Ch. 2, see the very full survey of the historiography of science offered by Cohen (1994); Lindberg (1990); Hall (1959); Barker and Ariew (1991); Crombie (1952, 1994 ...
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... notion of the poetic object. Dekker, in contrast, devotes considerable attention to the quantitative dimensions and the physical materials of the arches, reducing the significance of the monarch himself until he becomes one personage ...
... notion of the poetic object. Dekker, in contrast, devotes considerable attention to the quantitative dimensions and the physical materials of the arches, reducing the significance of the monarch himself until he becomes one personage ...
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... notions of 'form' that were characteristic of early-modern poets and practitioners, respectively: a qualitative, verbal ... notion derived from Euclid and from Neoplatonic and Pythagorean philosophy, one that was being modified by the ...
... notions of 'form' that were characteristic of early-modern poets and practitioners, respectively: a qualitative, verbal ... notion derived from Euclid and from Neoplatonic and Pythagorean philosophy, one that was being modified by the ...
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