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Travel and Drama in Shakespeare's Time

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Travel and Drama in Shakespeare's Time
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Jean-Pierre Maquerlot
Edited by Michele Willems
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:276
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
ISBN/Barcode 9780521035149
ClassificationsDewey:822.309355
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 14 December 2006
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This book explores interconnections between voyage narratives and travel plays in a period of intense foreign relations and the incipient colonization of the New World. Eminent Renaissance scholars use historical inquiry and textual analysis to offer readings of narrative and dramatic texts, envisaged both in the context of the period and from the far-reaching perspective of Britain's cultural history. Plays like The Spanish Tragedy, Doctor Faustus, Eastward Ho! or The Tempest - itself the subject of three chapters - are discussed alongside relatively obscure works. The plays are never approached as mere cultural documents. The underlying assumption is that the theatre is not reducible to a medium for conflicting ideologies but should be viewed as a privileged site of various meanings, of roads leading in several directions.