Playing the globe
Subtitle: genre and geography in English Renaissance drama
By: edited by John Gillies and Virginia Mason Vaughan.
Contributors: Gillies, John, 1947-; Vaughan, Virginia Mason.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Madison; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.; Geography in literature.; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.; Literary form -- History -- 16th century.; Literary form -- History -- 17th century.; Geographical discoveries in literature.; English drama -- Foreign influences.; Geographical myths in literature.; Space and time in literature.; Renaissance -- England.
Description: The essays collected here explore the representation of contemporary cartographic knowledge within a variety of English Renaissance dramatic texts. Including a preface and introduction that contextualize English cartographic awareness in the late sixteenth century, Playing the Globe provides a wide-ranging exploration of the rich variety of mental maps that shaped England's attitudes toward itself and others and continues to affect the ways in which the Anglo-American world imagines itself.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The mental maps of English Renaissance drama / Virginia Mason Vaughan; title: Elizabethan drama and the cartographizations of space / John Gillies; title: Gelded continents and plenteous rivers / Bruce Avery; title: A room not one's own / Rhonda Lemke Sanford; title: Genre and geography / Linda McJannet; title: Shakespeare's Greek world / Sara Hanna; title: Britain and the great beyond / Richmond Barbour; title: Slave-born Muscovites / John Michael Archer; title: Strange outlandish wealth / Barbara Sebek; title: Marlowe, the Timur myth, and the motives of geography / John Gillies; title: The "strange" geographies of Cymbeline / Glenn Clark; title: Domains of victory / Anthony Miller.