Travel and drama in early modern England : the journeying play /
This agenda-setting volume on travel and drama in early modern England provides new insights into Renaissance stage practice, performance history and theater's transnational exchanges. It advances our understanding of theater history, drama's generic conventions and what constitutes plays...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | This agenda-setting volume on travel and drama in early modern England provides new insights into Renaissance stage practice, performance history and theater's transnational exchanges. It advances our understanding of theater history, drama's generic conventions and what constitutes plays about travel at a time when the professional theater 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. Reassessing the parameters of the genre, the chapters offer fresh perspectives on how these plays communicated with their audiences and readers. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 271 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-260) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108471183 1108471188 |