Travel and Drama in Shakespeare's Time

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511553141

This book explores interconnections between voyage narratives and travel plays in a period of intense foreign relations and the incipient colonization of the New World. Eminent Renaissance scholars use historical inquiry and textual analysis to offer readings of narrative and dramatic texts, envisaged both in the context of the period and from the far-reaching perspective of Britain's cultural history. Plays like The Spanish Tragedy, Doctor Faustus, Eastward Ho! or The Tempest - itself the subject of three chapters - are discussed alongside relatively obscure works. The plays are never approached as mere cultural documents. The underlying assumption is that the theatre is not reducible to a medium for conflicting ideologies but should be viewed as a privileged site of various meanings, of roads leading in several directions.

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Frontmatter
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List of contributors
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1 - Introduction
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- By Jean-Pierre Maquerlot, Michèle Willems
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2 - Foreign relations in Jacobean England: the Sherley brothers and the ‘voyage of Persia’
pp 14-31
- By Anthony Parr
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3 - ‘The naked and the dead’: Elizabethan perceptions of Ireland
pp 32-54
- By Andrew Hadfield
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4 - The Elizabethans in Italy
pp 55-74
- By Jonathan Bate
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5 - Tragic form and the voyagers
pp 75-86
- By Philip Edwards
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6 - Nationality and language in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy
pp 87-105
- By J. R. Mulryne
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7 - Marlowe's Argonauts
pp 106-123
- By Yves Peyré
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8 - Pirates and ‘turning Turk’ in Renaissance drama
pp 124-140
- By Lois Potter
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9 - The wrong end of the telescope
pp 141-159
- By Brian Gibbons
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10 - ‘Travelling hopefully’: the dramatic form of journeys in English Renaissance drama
pp 160-178
- By Peter Holland
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11 - ‘Seeing things’: Amazons and cannibals
pp 179-192
- By Michael Hattaway
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12 - Industrious Ariel and idle Caliban
pp 193-208
- By Andrew Gurr
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13 - The New World in The Tempest
pp 209-222
- By Leo Salingar
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14 - ‘What's past is prologue’: metatheatrical memory and transculturation in The Tempest
pp 223-238
- By Günter Walch
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15 - Lope de Vega and Shakespeare
pp 239-254
- By Kenneth Muir
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Index
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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of contributors
pp ix-x

1 - Introduction
pp 1-13

2 - Foreign relations in Jacobean England: the Sherley brothers and the ‘voyage of Persia’
pp 14-31

3 - ‘The naked and the dead’: Elizabethan perceptions of Ireland
pp 32-54

4 - The Elizabethans in Italy
pp 55-74

5 - Tragic form and the voyagers
pp 75-86

6 - Nationality and language in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy
pp 87-105

7 - Marlowe's Argonauts
pp 106-123

8 - Pirates and ‘turning Turk’ in Renaissance drama
pp 124-140

9 - The wrong end of the telescope
pp 141-159

10 - ‘Travelling hopefully’: the dramatic form of journeys in English Renaissance drama
pp 160-178

11 - ‘Seeing things’: Amazons and cannibals
pp 179-192

12 - Industrious Ariel and idle Caliban
pp 193-208

13 - The New World in The Tempest
pp 209-222

14 - ‘What's past is prologue’: metatheatrical memory and transculturation in The Tempest
pp 223-238

15 - Lope de Vega and Shakespeare
pp 239-254

Index
pp 255-262

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