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

Turner, Henry S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199287384 ISBN 13: 9780199287383

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Henry S. Turner is Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has taught since 2000. He received his BA from Wesleyan University, an MA in Renaissance Studies and Critical Theory from the University of Sussex, an MA, MPhil and PhD from Columbia University, and a Diplome Superieur d'Etudes Francaises from the Universite de Bourgogne. From 1993-94 he taught in the Departement d'Anglais at the Universite de Nice. At Madison, his primary research and teaching areas are in Renaissance literature and culture and in twentieth-century critical theory. He is affiliated with the Center for European Studies and with the Center for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at Madison. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Whiting Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Wisconsin-Vilas Foundation, and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199287384
• ISBN 13: 9780199287383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328