In this episode of Urbanomic’s Yarncast series, Professor Henry Turner, author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630, discusses how the modern concept of ‘plot’ emerged during the early modern era in the theatre, where playwrights such as Ben Jonson and Thomas Dekker inhabited an artisanal milieu galvanized by the popular diffusion of practical geometry.
