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Cartographies of Travel and Navigation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 383

Cartographies of Travel and Navigation

Finding one’s way with a map is a relatively recent phenomenon. In premodern times, maps were used, if at all, mainly for planning journeys in advance, not for guiding travelers on the road. With the exception of navigational sea charts, the use of maps by travelers only became common in the modern era; indeed, in the last two hundred years, maps have become the most ubiquitous and familiar genre of modern cartography. Examining the historical relationship between travelers, navigation, and maps, Cartographies of Travel and Navigation considers the cartographic response to the new modalities of modern travel brought about by technological and institutional developments in the twentieth cen...

Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama

In the decades before history was institutionalized as a scholarly discipline, historical writing was practiced variously by poets, record keepers, lawyers, sermonizers, mythologizers, and philosophers. In this welter of competing forms of historical thought, early modern drama often operated as a site in which claims about the nature of historical change could be treated in a frequently conflicting manner. To explore this arena of competing forms of historical explanation, Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama focuses on the problem of narrative abruption in a selection of historically minded early modern plays as they rely on various strategies to make sense of biography and fatality. Arguing that narrative forms fail in the face of untimely death, Andrew Griffin shows that the disruption appears as a matter of trauma, making the untimely death both a point of narrative conflict and a social problem. Exploring the formula that early modern dramatists used to make sense of life and death, this book draws on the wider context of this period's culture of historical writing.

Hunting and the Politics of Violence Before the English Civil War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 193

Hunting and the Politics of Violence Before the English Civil War

This book is a study of English forests and hunting in early modern England.

The End of Satisfaction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

The End of Satisfaction

Heather Hirschfeld recovers the historical specificity and the conceptual vigor of the term "satisfaction" as used in dramas of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Sleep, Romance and Human Embodiment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

Sleep, Romance and Human Embodiment

Sullivan explores the impact of Aristotelian and Cartesian conceptions of humanness on works by Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton and Sidney.

Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 173

Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-03
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In this sustained full length study of Marlowe's plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked interest in unity and unification, and that in doing so it engages with a discourse of anxiety over social discord that was prominent in the 1580s and 1590s. In combination with the ambiguity of the plays, he suggests, this focus produces a tension that both heightens dramatic effect and facilitates a cynical response to contemporary evocations of and pleas for unity. This book has three main aims. Firstly, it establishes that Marlowe’s tragedies exhibit a profound interest in the process of reduction and the ideal of unity. Duxfield shows this interest to manifest itself i...

Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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.