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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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2018]
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Table of 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.