Geoparsing Early Modern English Drama [electronic resource] /
Matei-Chesnoiu, M.author.
Geo-spatial identity and early Modern European drama come together in this study of how cultural or political attachments are actively mediated through space. Matei-Chesnoiu traces the modulated representations of rivers, seas, mountains, and islands in sixteenth-century plays by Shakespeare, Jasper Fisher, Thomas May, and others.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Recomposing Space within Geographic Diversity -- Reclaimed Ancient and Renaissance Geographic Commentaries -- Ovid, Pontus Euxinus, and Geographic Imagination -- Hydrography as Poetics: Rivers and Empires -- Cities of the Sea: Constantinople Mobility and Cosmopolitanism -- Isolarii or Performative Island Routes -- Conclusions: Staging Telemesic Space.
Geo-spatial identity and early Modern European drama come together in this study of how cultural or political attachments are actively mediated through space. Matei-Chesnoiu traces the modulated representations of rivers, seas, mountains, and islands in sixteenth-century plays by Shakespeare, Jasper Fisher, Thomas May, and others.
Literature, Modern.
Poetry.
Literature-History and criticism.
Literature-Philosophy.
British literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary History.
Literary Theory.
British and Irish Literature.