Travel and Drama in Early Modern England
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Travel and Drama in Early Modern England

The Journeying Play

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eBook - PDF

Travel and Drama in Early Modern England

The Journeying Play

About this book

This agenda-setting volume on travel and drama in early modern England provides new insights into Renaissance stage practice, performance history, and theatre's transnational exchanges. It advances our understanding of theatre history, drama's generic conventions, and what constitutes plays about travel at a time when the professional theatre was rapidly developing and England was attempting to announce its presence within a global economy. Recent critical studies have shown that the reach of early modern travel was global in scope, and its cultural consequences more important than narratives that are dominated by the Atlantic world suggest. This collection of essays by world-leading scholars redefines the field by expanding the canon of recognized plays concerned with travel. Re-assessing the parameters of the genre, the chapters offer fresh perspectives on how these plays communicated with their audiences and readers.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title page
  4. Imprints page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figure
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction: Understanding the Early Modern Journeying Play
  10. 1 ā€˜For his Travailes let the Globe witnesseā€™: Venturing on the Stage in Early Modern England
  11. 2 Seeing and Overseeing the Stage as Map in Early Modern Drama
  12. 3 Marloweā€™s Mediterranean and CounterĀ­Epic Forms of Oceanic Hybridity
  13. 4 Making the Land Known: Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 and the Literature of Perambulation
  14. 5 Eastward Ho and the Traffic of the Stage
  15. 6 Language and Seafaring in Thomas Middleton and John Websterā€™s Anything for a Quiet Life
  16. 7 Rogue Cosmopolitans on the Early Modern Stage: John Ward, Thomas Stukeley, and the Sherley Brothers
  17. 8 Drama at Sea: A New Look at Shakespeare on the Dragon, 1607-08
  18. 9 Strange Bedfellows: The Ordinary Undersides of ā€˜A True Reportoryā€™ and The Tempest
  19. 10 Travelling Characters in Early Modern Drama
  20. 11 ā€˜Constant Changelingsā€™, Theatrical Form, and Migration: Stage Travel in the Early 1620s
  21. 12 The Uses of Cultural Encounter in Sir William Davenantā€™s Caroline-to-Restoration Voyage Drama
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index