Julie Sanders (University of Nottingham)

The Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama, 1620 1650

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Produktbeschreibung

Literary geographies is an exciting new area of interdisciplinary research. This innovative study applies theories of landscape, space and place to early modern drama productions in the decades immediately before the English Civil War, covering works by key playwrights including Ben Jonson, John Milton and Richard Brome.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781107463349
• ISBN-10: 1107463343
• Artikelnr.: 41417182

Autorenporträt

Julie Sanders is Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of Ben Jonson's Theatrical Republics (1998), the editor of Ben Jonson in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and has recently edited The New Inn for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. She has appeared several times on the BBC Radio 4 programme 'In our Time' talking about early modern literature and drama, and has advised on theatre and radio programmes as well as giving talks for playhouses and theatre companies in the UK and USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: entering the bear pit: cultural geography and early modern drama
1. Liquid landscapes: water, culture, and society in the Caroline period
2. Into the woods: spatial and social geographies in the forest
3. 'Hospitable fabrics': thinking through the early modern household
4. Moving through the landscape: mobility and sites of social circulation
5. Neighbourhoods and networks
6. Writing the city: emergent spaces.