Re-imagining Western European geography in English Renaissance drama

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Re-imagining Western European geography in English Renaissance drama

Matei-Chesnoiu examines the changing understanding of world geography in 16th-century England and the concomitant involvement of the London theatre in shaping a new perception of Western European space. Fresh readings are offered of Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, Dekker, Massinger, Marston, and others.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
220

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Table of Contents

Geography as the eye of history
Constructing fictions of geographical knowledge
Reconsidering classical geography
Seeing, imagining, and representing the world in English
Continental geography and travel in english translations
Romanticized France in the English imagination
Stabilizing French images in english geography
Familiar and foreign France in English drama
Shifting views of the German principalities
German land in the english geographic imagination
Reading German ethnicity in English comedies
Geography and trade: the low countries and Denmark
Mapping cultural memory via geography
From geography to commercial traffic in drama
Spain from court to country
Spain in early modern English geography
Reconstructing Spain in English drama.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
822/.309358
Library of Congress
PR658.G46 M38 2012, PN715-PN749PN1010-PN

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
220

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25347280M
ISBN 13
9780230366305
LCCN
2012021614
OCLC/WorldCat
794973775

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16672540W

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