This book considers the influence that sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted on the writing and production of popular drama between about 1587 and 1603. It concentrates upon six plays by five early modern dramatists: (1587) and (1587) by Christopher Marlowe; (1589) by Robert Greene; (1599) by Thomas Dekker; (1600) by William Shakespeare; and (1603) by Henry Chettle. Each chapter analyses how the terms, concepts, and implications of contemporary mathematics impacted upon these plays’ vocabularies, forms, and aesthetic and dramaturgical effects and affects. weiterlesen