Re-imagining Western European geography in English Renaissance drama
By: Monica Matei-Chesnoiu
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780230366305
Subjects: English drama; Renaissance; History and criticism; In literature; Geography in literature
Description: Matei-Chesnoiu examines the changing understanding of world geography in 16th-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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Geography as the eye of history; title: Constructing fictions of geographical knowledge; title: Reconsidering classical geography; title: Seeing, imagining, and representing the world in English; title: Continental geography and travel in english translations; title: Romanticized France in the English imagination; title: Stabilizing French images in english geography; title: Familiar and foreign France in English drama; title: Shifting views of the German principalities; title: German land in the english geographic imagination; title: Reading German ethnicity in English comedies; title: Geography and trade: the low countries and Denmark; title: Mapping cultural memory via geography; title: From geography to commercial traffic in drama; title: Spain from court to country; title: Spain in early modern English geography; title: Reconstructing Spain in English drama.