The English Renaissance stage : geometry, poetics, and the practical spatial arts 1580-1630
"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 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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xv, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780199287383, 0199287384
123243894
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