Gavin Hollis

The Absence of America

The London Stage, 1576-1642

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Produktbeschreibung

The Absence of America: the London Stage 1576-1642 looks at London theater at the time of Shakespeare and how it represented the New World, considering whether early modern drama was anti-American, as some contemporaries suggested.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198734321
• ISBN-10: 0198734328
• Artikelnr.: 47869464

Autorenporträt

Gavin Hollis received his PhD in English Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is Assistant Professor at Hunter College CUNY specializing in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama. Originally from Great Britain, he also holds degrees from Cambridge University and the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: "Where America? The Indies": London Theater and the New
World
* Part I: Adventurers and Cannibals
* 1: The Devil, the Papist, the Player: the Virginia Company's
Anti-theatricalism
* 2: Plantation and "the Powdered Wife": The Roaring Girl, Eastward Ho!
, and The Sea Voyage
* Part II: Indians and Londoners
* 3: The Dead Indian: Virginians in The Memorable Masque, "The Triumph
of Time," Henry VIII, and The Tempest of 1613
* 4: "He would not goe naked like the Indians, but cloathed just as one
of our selves": Indian Disguise in The Historie of Orlando Furioso,
The Fatal Marriage, and The City Madam
* Afterword: "Scene: Virginia": America and the Heroic Drama on the
Restoration Stage