Re-imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama [electronic resource] /
Matei-Chesnoiu, M.author.
Matei-Chesnoiu examines the changing understanding of world geography in sixteenth-century England and the concomitant involvement of the London theatre in shaping a new perception of Western European space. Fresh readings are offered of Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, Dekker, Massinger, Marston, and others.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Textual Note; Introduction: Dramatic Geographies of the Self; 1 Geography as the Eye of History; Constructing fictions of geographic knowledge; Reconsidering classical geography; Seeing, imagining, and representing the world in English; Continental geography and travel in English translations; 2 Romanticized France in the English Imagination; Stabilizing French images in English geography; Familiar and foreign France in English drama; 3 Shifting Views of the German Principalities; German Länder in the English geographic imagination
Reading German ethnicity in English comedies4 Geography and Trade: The Low Countries and Denmark; Mapping cultural memory via geography; From geography to commercial traffic in drama; 5 Spain from Court to Country; Spain in early modern English geography; Reconstructing Spain in English plays; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-212) and index.
Matei-Chesnoiu examines the changing understanding of world geography in sixteenth-century England and the concomitant involvement of the London theatre in shaping a new perception of Western European space. Fresh readings are offered of Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, Dekker, Massinger, Marston, and others.
Literature, Modern.
Poetry.
Theater—History.
British literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Theatre History.
British and Irish Literature.