Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage

The way that characters in early modern theatrical performance think through their surroundings is important in our understanding of perception, memory, and other forms of embodied affective thought. This book explores this concept in dramatic works by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Beaumont, and Jonson.

List of contents

• Introduction: Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage


• 1: Forms of Emplacement: The Arts of Memory, Chorography, and Theatrical Performance


• 2: Marlowe and the Ecology of Remembrance


• 3: The Perception of Place in King Lear


• 4: Staging Failure: Disorientation in The Knight of the Burning Pestle


• 5: Bartholomew Fair and the Performativity of Place


• Conclusion: 'no need of place'

About the author

Andrew Bozio is Assistant Professor of English at Skidmore College, where he teaches courses on early modern English drama and literary theory.

Summary

The way that characters in early modern theatrical performance think through their surroundings is important in our understanding of perception, memory, and other forms of embodied affective thought. This book explores this concept in dramatic works by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Beaumont, and Jonson.

Additional text

In Thinking through Place on the Early Modern English Stage, Andrew Bozio offers fresh readings of some of the most interesting plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries and provides a compelling account of how "thinking unfolds through and as an ecology on the earlymodern English stage" (183).

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Bozio, Andrew (Assistant Professor of English Bozio
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780198846567
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884656-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Early Modern Literary Geographies; Early Modern Literary Geograph
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, c 1500 to c 1600, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, drama performance English