Reading the Road, from Shakespeare’s Crossways to Bunyan’s Highways

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Av Lisa Hopkins, Bill Angus, Sheffield Hallam University) Hopkins, Lisa (Professor Emerita of English, Massey University) Angus, Bill (Senior Lecturer in English

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This book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture. Chapters develop our understanding of the place of the road in the early modern imagination and open various windows on a geography which may by its nature seem passing or trivial but is in fact central to all conceptions of movement. They also shed new light on perhaps the most astonishing achievement of early modern plays: their use of one small, bare space to suggest an amazing variety of physical and potentially metaphysical locations.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-08-31
Mått156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474454124

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Lisa Hopkins is Professor Emerita of English at Sheffield Hallam University and co-editor of Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association, of Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama, and of Arden Early Modern Drama Guides. Her most recent publications are The Edge of Christendom on the Early Modern English Stage (2022) and A Companion to the Cavendishes, with Tom Rutter (2020). She also works on detective fiction and her book Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction was published in 2023. Bill Angus is a Senior Lecturer in English at Massey University, New Zealand. He has written extensively on early modern drama and material culture. His books with Edinburgh University Press include Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and Jonson (2016), Intelligence and Metadrama in the Early Modern Theatre (2018), Reading the Road, from Shakespeare’s Crossways to Bunyan’s Highways (2019), co-edited with Lisa Hopkins, and his last monograph, A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture (2022). His latest edited collection Poison on the Early Modern English Stage, co-edited with Kibrina Davey and Lisa Hopkins, was published in 2023.

Introduction: Allegories, Economies and Resonances of the Road, Bill Angus and Lisa HopkinsPart I. Shakespeare’s Roads Chapter 1. The Low Road and the High Road: Macbeth and the Way to Scotland, Lisa HopkinsChapter 2. Uncolting Falstaff: The Oats Complex and Energy Crisis in 1 Henry IV, Todd Andrew BorlikChapter 3. The Night, the Crossroads and the Stake: Shakespeare and the Outcast Dead, Bill AngusChapter 4. Gender, Vagrancy, and the Culture of the Early Modern Road in As You Like It, Karalyn DokurnoChapter 5. Traversing Monstrosity: Perilous Women and Powerful Men upon Shakespeare’s Roads, Sharon EmmerichsPart II. The Embodied Road Chapter 6. Not So Tedious Ways to Think about the Locations of the Early Playhouses, Laurie JohnsonChapter 7. Wandering Fools and Foolish Vagrants: Folly on the Road in Early Modern English Culture, Alice EquestriChapter 8. ‘Fallen Am I in Dark Uneven Way’: Wandering from the Road in Early Modern Folklore and Drama, Jennifer Allport ReidChapter 9. ‘I must abroad or perish!’: The Meta-theatre of the Road in Brome’s A Jovial Crew, Kim DurbanPart III. Writing the Road Chapter 10. Staging the road: walking, talking, footing, Robert StaggChapter 11. The Road to Damascus and the Road to Hell in Philip Massinger’s The Renegado: Islamic England and the Pauline Crossroads, Paul FrazerChapter 12. How Margaret Cavendish Mapped a Blazing World, Marion Wynne-DaviesChapter 13. ‘The King’s Highway:’ Reading England’s Road in The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part I., Martha Lynn RussellConclusion, Lisa Hopkins and Bill AngusIndex