Colonial failure and theatrical form in early modern England : stages of unsettlement /
"Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England shows how early modern English dramatists preserved and instrumentalized the early history of England's failed conquests of the Americas in the formal techniques they used to stage fictional worlds. Scholars have long noted that...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Early modern literary geographies.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England : Stages of Unsettlement
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Settlement and Unsettlement
- Unsettled Theatricality and the Theatricality of Unsettlement
- PART I: 'To Occupy Down by the Great Waters': Navigation and Conquest, 1589-1600
- 1: Hakluyt, the Americas, and the Common Reader: Navigation and Conquest, 1589-1600
- Great Travails in Little Rooms: Hakluyt's Commonplaces
- Monuments and Fragments
- Travels and Travails
- Magical Props and Imagined Passages
- Metonymic Possession and Arctic Conquest
- Tamburlaine's Metonymic Possessions
- Dispossession and Repossession
- 'Discourse of a Discoverie'
- 'This Island's Mine'
- 2: Metonymic Possession in ChristopherMarlowe's Tamburlaine
- Magical Props and Imagined Passages
- Metonymic Possession and Arctic Conquest
- Tamburlaine's Metonymic Possessions
- Dispossession and Repossession
- 'Discourse of a Discoverie'
- PART II: 'THIS ISLAND'S MINE'Conquest and Settlement, 1599-1611
- 3: Seasoned Settlers in Ben Jonson's City Comedies: Conquest and Settlement, 1599-1611
- 'Respectless Courses' in Every Man In His Humour
- Humoring the Americas
- Jonson's New World Humors
- 'Perj'rous Air' in Every Man Out of His Humour
- Jonson's American London
- 4: Stagewreck in William Shakespeare's The Tempest
- 'We Split, We Split!': Getting Lost in Shakespeare
- Insular Theatricality
- Prospero's Wooden O
- Unsettling The Tempest
- PART III: 'THOSE INSTRUMENTS THATDELVED THEM OUT OFTHE EARTH': Imagining Settler Futures, 1611-1627
- 5: Stagework in the Lord Mayor's Show, 1611-1627: Imagining Settler Futures, 1611-1627
- Emblematic Theatricality in the Lord Mayor's Show
- Working the Americas
- New World Labour on the Early Modern Stage
- Coda
- Bibliography
- General and Name Index