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Spatial representations and the Jacobean stage : from Shakespeare to Webster
- Title
- Spatial representations and the Jacobean stage : from Shakespeare to Webster / Russell West.
- Author
- West-Pavlov, Russell, 1964-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2002.
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Details
- Description
- x, 276 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage reminds us that theatre takes place on a stage-space, using spatial means of representation. For early modern theatregoers, the spatial messages created in the theatre had much to say about the transformations of English society in the opening decades of the seventeenth century. West examines various spatial aspects of the rapidly changing era between the death of Elizabeth I and the accession of Charles I: social mobility, rural enclosure, wandering populations, sea travel, localized empirical thought, focusing upon the ways such momentous transformations of Jacobean society were debated on the London stages. Dramas by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Tourneur and Webster are scrutinized for their treatment of these controversial themes. In particular, the book gives careful attention to the staging techniques used to give tangible expression to the spatial issues dramatized in the Jacobean theatre."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Stage history > To 1625
- Webster, John, 1580?-1625? > Stage history > To 1625
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Technique
- Webster, John, 1580?-1625? > Technique
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Webster, John, 1580?-1625?
- To 1699
- English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism
- English drama > 17th century > History and criticism
- Theater > England > History > 17th century
- Space and time in literature
- Setting (Literature)
- 18.05 English literature
- English drama
- English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan
- Technique
- Theater
- Ruimte (algemeen)
- Toneelstukken
- Engels
- Sociale verandering
- England
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-267) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Staging Space -- 1. Stage-space in the Jacobean Age -- 2. The Sun King: James I and the Court Masque -- 3. The Dumb God: Money as an Engine for Mobility -- 4. Mean Persons and Counterfeit Port: Social Mobility -- 5. Masterless Men and Shifting Knavery: Demographic Mobility -- 6. Travelling Thoughts: Travel on the Stage -- 7. Local Thought: Intellectual and Subjective Mobility -- Coda: Drama and the Appropriation of Social Space.
- ISBN
- 0333973739
- 9780333973738
- LCCN
- 2001036885
- OCLC
- ocm47755852
- 47755852
- SCSB-1248416
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library