Dramatic Geography
Dramatic Geography

Author: Laurence Publicover

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0198806817

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Focusing on early modern plays which stage encounters between peoples of different cultures, the volume explores the ways in which early modern plays stage dramatic geography and how this has shaped literary and theatrical heritage.

Staging Place
Staging Place

Author: Una Chaudhuri

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780472065899

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The first book-length study of the notion of place and its implications in modern drama

The Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama, 1620–1650
The Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama, 1620–1650

Author: Julie Sanders

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-05-26

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1139497340

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Literary geographies is an exciting new area of interdisciplinary research. Innovative and engaging, this book applies theories of landscape, space and place from the discipline of cultural geography within an early modern historical context. Different kinds of drama and performance are analysed: from commercial drama by key playwrights to household masques and entertainment performed by families and in semi-official contexts. Sanders provides a fresh look at works from the careers of Ben Jonson, John Milton and Richard Brome, paying attention to geographical spaces and habitats like forests, coastlines and arctic landscapes of ice and snow, as well as the more familiar locales of early modern country estates and city streets and spaces. Overall, the book encourages readers to think about geography as kinetic, embodied and physical, not least in its literary configurations, presenting a key contribution to early modern scholarship.