Rhetoric of Space and Poetics of Culture

Steven Mullaney, one of the authors often associated with New Historicism, in his book The Place of the Stage proposed certain type of analysis of the English Renaissance theatre which he described as Rhetoric of Space. The paper points out how Mullaney's Rhetoric of Space and reading of the city could be seen as one of the exemplary instances of the application of Poetics of Culture conceived by notable new historicists such as; in the first instance, Stephen Greenblatt.