Science & Technology in Literature, Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, British Playwrights - Literary Biography, English Drama - 16th-17th Century - Elizabethan & Jacobean Eras - Shakespeare - Literary Criticism, Great Britain - Theater - Histo
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Overview
This work offers a timely alternative to theater criticism's neglect of the intensely spatial character of theatrical performance by showing that early modern audiences were highly aware of the spatial aspects of the stage. Jacobean dramatists used stage space to explore the spatial transformations of early modern society—social mobility, wandering populations, rural enclosure, sea travel, localized empirical thought.
Synopsis
Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage offers a timely alternative to theatre criticism's neglect of the intensely spatial character of theatrical performance. The book shows that early modern audiences were highly aware of the spatial aspects of the stage. West examines the ways Jacobean dramatists used stage space to explore the spatial transformations of early modern society - social mobility, wandering populations, rural enclosure, sea travel, localized empirical thought. Dramas by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Webster are scrutinized for their treatment of these controversial themes.Book Details
Published
July 1, 2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages
288
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780333973738