The uses of this world
Subtitle: thinking space in Shakespeare, Marlowe, Cary, and Jonson
By: Andrew Hiscock.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cardiff
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Social structure in literature.; Setting (Literature); Personal space in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-244) and index.
Table of contents: title: "What's Hecuba to him? Diegetic space and myths of belonging in Shakespeare's Hamlet; title: Enclosing 'infinite riches in a little room' : the question of cultural marginality in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta; title: 'Here is my space' : the politics of appropriation in Shakespeare's Antony and Cloepatra; title: 'The hateful cuckoo' : Elizabeth Cary's Tragedie of Mariam and the collapse of domestic space; title: Urban dystopia : the colonizing of Jonson's Venice in Volpone; title: 'A kind of modern happiness' : The alchemist and the exploitation of provisional space.