Travel and drama in Early Modern England : the journeying play / edited by Claire Jowitt, University of East Anglia ; David McInnis, University of Melbourne.

Other author Jowitt, Claire editor.
Other author McInnis, David editor.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Descriptionpages cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: understanding the early modern journeying play / Claire Jowitt and David McInnis -- "For his travailes let the globe witnesse": venturing on the stage in early modern England / Anthony Parr -- Seeing and overseeing the stage as map in early modern drama / Ladan Niayesh -- Marlowe's Mediterranean and counter-epic forms of oceanic hybridity / Steve Mentz -- Making the land known: Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, and theáliterature of perambulation / Julie Sanders -- Eastward ho and the traffic of the stage / Andrew Gordon -- Language and seafaring in Thomas Middleton and John Webster's Anything for a quiet life / Marianne Montgomery -- Rogue cosmopolitans on the early modern stage: John Ward, Thomas Stukeley, and the Sherley Brothers / Daniel Vitkus -- Drama at sea: a new look at Shakespeare on the Dragon, 1607-08 / Richmond Barbour and Bernhard Klein -- Strange bedfellows: the ordinary undersides of "a true reportory" and The tempest / Emily C. Bartels -- Travelling characters in early modern drama / David McInnis -- "Constant changelings", theatrical form, and migration: stage travel in the early 1620s / Clare McManus -- The uses of cultural encounter in Sir William Davenant's Caroline-to-Restoration voyage drama / Claire Jowitt.
Summary 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2018036912
ISBN9781108471183 (hardback)
ISBN1108471188

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