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Three Renaissance Travel Plays

English · Paperback / Softback

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This volume brings together three little-known plays that convey vividly the fascination in early seventeenth-century England with travel and exploration.. Three dramas of wandering and adventure which explore the great diversity of responses in the period to the lures of tourism and colonial expansion and to challenges posed by the encounter with exotic places and peoples.. Intellectually distinguished edition now available in paperback for the first time.. This collection presents modernised texts with an extensive commentary and a full introduction to set the plays in their historical and cultural context.

List of contents










Introduction
1. The Travels of the Three English Brothers
2. The Sea Voyage
3. The Antipodes

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Anthony Parr is Professor of English at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Summary

This volume brings together three little-known plays that convey England's early 17th-century fascination with travel and exploration. The texts are modernized with extensive commentaries and an introduction setting them in historical and cultural context.

Product details

Authors Anthony Parr
Assisted by Paul Edmondson (Editor), Anthony Parr (Editor), Tony Parr (Editor), Parr Tony (Editor), Martin White (Editor)
Publisher Ingram Publishers Services
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 23.03.2000
 
EAN 9780719058004
ISBN 978-0-7190-5800-4
No. of pages 352
Dimensions 138 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
Weight 440 g
Series Revels Plays Companion Library
Revels Plays Companion Library
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

England, DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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