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The English Renaissance stage : geometry, poetics, and the practical spatial arts, 1580-1630 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turner, Henry S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Theater > England > 16th century > History and criticism.
Theater > England > 17th century > History and criticism.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • I. 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
  • II. 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.