Early modern drama and the Eastern European elsewhere
Subtitle: representations of liminal locality in Shakespeare and his contemporaries
By: Monica Matei-Chesnoiu.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Madison, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780838641958
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism; East Europeans in literature; Other (Philosophy) in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Geography in literature; Space in literature; Liminality in literature; Europe, Eastern -- In literature
Description: "This study explores how Eastern European spaces and meanings are constituted in specific cultural contexts in early modern English drama. Focusing on the ways in which these texts integrate the articulation of Eastern European space and geography into a variety of interpretative conventions, the book develops ways of thinking critically and reflexively about the production of knowledge and identity in Shakespeare and his contemporaries through representations of space in drama."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: on the margins of history and geography; title: Ancient fables of eccentric lands: histories and roman plays; title: Stage maps of the Roman Empire : Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra; title: Early modern chorographies of Eastern European regions; title: Early modern drama about Central European spaces; title: Eastern European geography in early modern English drama; title: Romances and theatrical geography; title: Conclusions: Eastern European liminal locality.