Travel and Drama in Early Modern England
Subtitle: The Journeying Play
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781108471183
Subjects: Theater, great britain, history; English drama, history and criticism, early modern and elizabethan, 1500-1600; Travel, history
Description: This agenda-setting volume on travel and drama in early modern England provides new insights into Renaissance stage practice, performance history, and theatre's transnational exchanges. It advances our understanding of theatre history, drama's generic conventions, and what constitutes plays about travel at a time when the professional theatre was rapidly developing and England was attempting to announce its presence within a global economy. Recent critical studies have shown that the reach of early modern travel was global in scope, and its cultural consequences more important than narratives that are dominated by the Atlantic world suggest. This collection of essays by world-leading scholars redefines the field by expanding the canon of recognized plays concerned with travel. Re-assessing the parameters of the genre, the chapters offer fresh perspectives on how these plays communicated with their audiences and readers.