Re-Imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama

Zusatztext "This is an intriguing book with wide cross-disciplinary appeal! engaging with literary! political! historical and geographical texts to show the interwoven nature of places! peoples! events and representations." - Literature & History Informationen zum Autor Monica Matei-Chesnoiu is Professor of English literature at Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania. Klappentext Matei-Chesnoiu examines the changing understanding of world geography in sixteenth-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. "This is an intriguing book with wide cross-disciplinary appeal, engaging with literary, political, historical and geographical texts to show the interwoven nature of places, peoples, events and representations." - Literature & History Zusammenfassung Matei-Chesnoiu examines the changing understanding of world geography in sixteenth-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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction: Dramatic Geographies of the Self Geography as the Eye of History Romanticized France in the English Imagination Shifting Views of the German Principalities Geography and Trade: The Low Countries and Denmark Spain from Court to Country Notes Bibliography Index

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Acknowledgements Introduction: Dramatic Geographies of the Self Geography as the Eye of History Romanticized France in the English Imagination Shifting Views of the German Principalities Geography and Trade: The Low Countries and Denmark Spain from Court to Country Notes Bibliography Index

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"This is an intriguing book with wide cross-disciplinary appeal, engaging with literary, political, historical and geographical texts to show the interwoven nature of places, peoples, events and representations." - Literature & History

Product details

• Authors: MATEI CHESNOIU MONICA, M Matei-Chesnoiu, M. Matei-Chesnoiu, Monica Matei-Chesnoiu
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2012
• EAN: 9780230366305
• ISBN: 978-0-230-36630-5
• No. of pages: 229
• Series: Early Modern Literature in History; Early Modern Literature in His; Early Modern Literature in History; Early Modern Literature in His
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Poetry, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Theater—History, Theatre History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern