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- catalog abstract ""In early modern Europe, before a "theatre" was a playhouse, it was an encyclopedia. In this book William N. West explores what "theatre" meant to medieval and Renaissance writers and critics, and places Renaissance drama, for the first time, within the powerfully influential context of the encyclopedic writings which were being produced at the time. Recent criticism has recognized that the culture of early modern Europe was a theatre culture, fascinated by performance of all kinds, but it was also an encyclopedic culture, obsessed with collecting and sorting knowledge. Early encyclopedias presented themselves as textual theatres, in which everything knowable could be represented in concrete, visible form. Medieval and Renaissance plays, similarly, took encyclopedic themes as their topics: the mysteries of nature, universal history, the world of learning. But instead of transmitting authorized knowledge quickly and unambiguously, as it was supposed to, the theatre created a situation in which ordinary experience could become a communicable source of authority." "By the mid seventeenth century, the theatre had become the model for the reformation of the encyclopedia and the encyclopedia for the theatre, as knowledge itself came to be seen as a kind of performance. West covers a wide range of works, from the canonical encyclopedic texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance to Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, Jonson's The Alchemist, and Bacon's Novum Organum, and provides a fascinating picture of the cultural and intellectual life of the period."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12775120.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""By the mid seventeenth century, the theatre had become the model for the reformation of the encyclopedia and the encyclopedia for the theatre, as knowledge itself came to be seen as a kind of performance. West covers a wide range of works, from the canonical encyclopedic texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance to Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, Jonson's The Alchemist, and Bacon's Novum Organum, and provides a fascinating picture of the cultural and intellectual life of the period."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""In early modern Europe, before a "theatre" was a playhouse, it was an encyclopedia. In this book William N. West explores what "theatre" meant to medieval and Renaissance writers and critics, and places Renaissance drama, for the first time, within the powerfully influential context of the encyclopedic writings which were being produced at the time. Recent criticism has recognized that the culture of early modern Europe was a theatre culture, fascinated by performance of all kinds, but it was also an encyclopedic culture, obsessed with collecting and sorting knowledge. Early encyclopedias presented themselves as textual theatres, in which everything knowable could be represented in concrete, visible form.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-290) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: circles of learning -- The space of the encyclopedia -- The idea of a theatre -- Tricks of vision, truths of discourse: illustration, ars combinatoria, and authority -- Holding the mirror up to nature?: the humanist theatre beside itself -- The show of learning and the performance of knowledge: humors, Epigrams, and "an universal store" -- Francis Bacon's theatre of Orpheus: "literate experience" and experimental science.".
- catalog description "Medieval and Renaissance plays, similarly, took encyclopedic themes as their topics: the mysteries of nature, universal history, the world of learning. But instead of transmitting authorized knowledge quickly and unambiguously, as it was supposed to, the theatre created a situation in which ordinary experience could become a communicable source of authority."".
- catalog extent "xv, 293 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521809142".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 44".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Europe".
- catalog subject "792.09409031 21".
- catalog subject "Encyclopedias and dictionaries Europe History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Encyclopedias and dictionaries Europe History.".
- catalog subject "English drama 17th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN2570 .W47 2002".
- catalog subject "Theater Europe History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: circles of learning -- The space of the encyclopedia -- The idea of a theatre -- Tricks of vision, truths of discourse: illustration, ars combinatoria, and authority -- Holding the mirror up to nature?: the humanist theatre beside itself -- The show of learning and the performance of knowledge: humors, Epigrams, and "an universal store" -- Francis Bacon's theatre of Orpheus: "literate experience" and experimental science.".
- catalog title "Theatres and encyclopedias in early modern Europe / William N. West.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".