Travel and Drama in Early Modern England: The Journeying Play - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108471188 ISBN 13: 9781108471183

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

This volume on travel and drama in early modern England provides new insights on Renaissance stage practice, performance history, and theatre's transnational exchanges. Advancing 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.

About the Author:

Claire Jowitt is Associate Dean for Research in Arts and Humanities and Professor of English and History at the University of East Anglia. She is author of Voyage Drama and Gender Politics, 1589–1642 (2003) and The Culture of Piracy: English Literature and Seaborne Crime 1580–1630 (2010).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1108471188
• ISBN 13: 9781108471183
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Jowitt Claire, McInnis David