Laurence Publicover

Dramatic Geography

Romance, Intertheatricality, and Cultural Encounter in Early Modern Mediterranean Drama

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on early modern plays which stage encounters between peoples of different cultures, the volume explores the ways in which early modern plays stage dramatic geography and how this has shaped literary and theatrical heritage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 135mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780198806813
• ISBN-10: 0198806817
• Artikelnr.: 48139415

Autorenporträt

Laurence Publicover studied at the University of Oxford and the University of Bristol, receiving his PhD in 2010. He worked for two years at the University of Leeds before returning to Bristol, where he is now Lecturer in English. His research and teaching focus on early modern drama and on the sea in literature and culture from the classical period to the present day. He has published articles in several major journals, including Essays in Criticism and Renaissance Studies, and has coedited a special edition of Cahiers Élisabéthains entitled 'Space on the Early Modern Stage'.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: An Uninhabited Island?
* Part I
* 1: Romancing the Mediterranean
* 2: Staging Romance
* Part II
* 3: This Carthage, Sirs, was Venice: What is Intertheatrical
Geography?
* 4: Turks and Tournaments: Kyd's Soliman and Perseda
* 5: Satirizing Kyd's Mediterranean: Marlowe's The Jew of Malta
* 6: Re-enchanting the Mediterranean: Shakespeare's The Merchant of
Venice
* 7: Re-thinking Romance: Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West, Part I
* 8: Intertheatricality and Propaganda: The Travels of the Three
English Brothers
* Conclusion