Travel and Drama in Early Modern England

The Journeying Play
Herausgeber: Jowitt, Claire; Mcinnis, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume on travel and drama in early modern England provides new insights on Renaissance stage practice, performance history, and theatre's transnational exchanges. Advancing 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 157mm x 239mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9781108471183
• ISBN-10: 1108471188
• Artikelnr.: 52642272

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: understanding the early modern journeying play Claire Jowitt
and David McInnis; 1. 'For his travailes let the Globe witnesse': venturing
on the stage in early modern England Anthony Parr; 2. Seeing and overseeing
the stage as map in Early Modern drama Ladan Niayesh; 3. Marlowe's
Mediterranean and counter-epic forms of oceanic hybridity Steve Mentz; 4.
Making the land known: Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 and the literature of
perambulation Julie Sanders; 5. Eastward Ho and the traffic of the stage
Andrew Gordon; 6. Language and seafaring in Thomas Middleton and John
Webster's Anything for a Quiet Life Marianne Montgomery; 7. Rogue
cosmopolitans on the Early Modern stage: John Ward, Thomas Stukeley, and
the Sherley brothers Daniel Vitkus; 8. Drama at sea: a new look at
Shakespeare on the Dragon, 1607-8 Richmond Barbour and Bernhard Klein; 9.
Strange bedfellows: the ordinary undersides of 'a true reportory' and The
Tempest Emily C. Bartels; 10. Travelling characters in early modern drama
David McInnis; 11. 'Constant changelings', theatrical form, and migration:
stage travel in the early 1620s Clare McManus; 12. The uses of cultural
encounter in Sir William Davenant's Caroline-to-Restoration voyage drama
Claire Jowitt.