English Renaissance Stage - Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Henry S. Turner
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2010
• EAN: 9780199595457
• ISBN: 978-0-19-959545-7
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, History of engineering and technology, Literary studies: general, History of engineering & technology, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, History of mathematics, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights