Research Catalog

Title

Travel and drama in early modern England : the journeying play / edited by Claire Jowitt, University of East Anglia, David McInnis, University of Melbourne.

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jowitt, Claire
• McInnis, David

Description

xvi, 271 pages : illustration; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Subjects

• English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Travel in literature
• Geographical perception in literature
• Travelers in literature
• English drama > 17th century > History and criticism
• English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan
• 1500-1699

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-260) and index.

Contents

Introduction: understanding the early modern journeying play / Claire Jowitt and David McInnis -- "For his travailes let the globe witnesse": venturing on the stage in early modern England / Anthony Parr -- Seeing and overseeing the stage as map in early modern drama / Ladan Niayesh -- Marlowe's Mediterranean and counter-epic forms of oceanic hybridity / Steve Mentz -- Making the land known: Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, and theáliterature of perambulation / Julie Sanders -- Eastward ho and the traffic of the stage / Andrew Gordon -- Language and seafaring in Thomas Middleton and John Webster's Anything for a quiet life / Marianne Montgomery -- Rogue cosmopolitans on the early modern stage: John Ward, Thomas Stukeley, and the Sherley Brothers / Daniel Vitkus -- Drama at sea: a new look at Shakespeare on the Dragon, 1607-08 / Richmond Barbour and Bernhard Klein -- Strange bedfellows: the ordinary undersides of "a true reportory" and The tempest / Emily C. Bartels -- Travelling characters in early modern drama / David McInnis -- "Constant changelings", theatrical form, and migration: stage travel in the early 1620s / Clare McManus -- The uses of cultural encounter in Sir William Davenant's Caroline-to-Restoration voyage drama / Claire Jowitt.

Call Number

JFE 19-1955

ISBN

• 1108471188
• 9781108471183

LCCN

2018036912

OCLC

1037057848

Title

Travel and drama in early modern England : the journeying play / edited by Claire Jowitt, University of East Anglia, David McInnis, University of Melbourne.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-260) and index.

Chronological Term

1500-1699

Added Author

Jowitt, Claire, editor.

McInnis, David, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-1955