Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage

From Shakespeare to Webster

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

Av R. West, Professor West, Russell, Russell West-Pavlov

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Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage offers a timely alternative to theatre criticism's neglect of the intensely spatial character of theatrical performance. The book shows that early modern audiences were highly aware of the spatial aspects of the stage. West examines the ways Jacobean dramatists used stage space to explore the spatial transformations of early modern society - social mobility, wandering populations, rural enclosure, sea travel, localized empirical thought. Dramas by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Webster are scrutinized for their treatment of these controversial themes.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-03-25
Mått140 x 216 x 23 mm
Vikt560 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor276
Upplaga2002
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780333973738

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Editions Used Introduction: Staging Space Stage-Space in the Jacobean Age The Sun King: James I and the Court Masque The Dumb God: Money as an Engine for Mobility Mean Persons and Counterfeit Port: Social Mobility Masterless Men and Shifting Knavery: Demographic Mobility Travelling Thoughts: Travel on the Stage Local Thought: Intellectual and Subjective Mobility Coda: Drama and the Appropriation of Social Space Index

'This brilliant, theoretically complex book is a welcome addition to the growing body of renaissance critical discourse on social space and its relationship to the literary and cultural environment of the early modern period...The book's final chapter is astonishingly original and will hopefully point the way ahead for other reaissance scholarship into space and literature...This section, like other approaches in the book, is given impetus by West's determination to constantly renegotiate the terms of spatial inquiry in this highly impressive work.' - Early Modern Literary Studies'...produces genuinely fascinating insights, which only such an excellent fusion of cultural history and theatre studies as West offers us here could hope to achieve.' - Bernhard Klein, ZAA