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Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage

By Andrew Bozio

Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage Contemporary literature

Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage

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Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage argues that environment and embodied thought continually shaped one another in the performance of early modern English drama. It demonstrates this, first, by establishing how characters think through their surroundings not only how they orient themselves within unfamiliar or otherwise strange locations, but also how their environs function as the scaffolding for perception, memory, and other forms of embodied thought. It then contends that these moments of thinking through place theorize and thematize the work that playgoers undertook in reimagining the stage as the setting of the dramatic fiction. By tracing the relationship between these two registers of thought in such plays as The Malcontent, Dido Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine, King Lear, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, and Bartholomew Fair, this book shows that drama makes visible the often invisible means by which embodied subjects acquire a sense of their surroundings. It also reveals how, in doing so, theater altered the way that playgoers perceived, experienced, and imagined place in early modern England.
Product details
Number of Pages:
226
Release Date:
2020-03-06
Publication Date:
2020-03-06
Publisher:
OXFORD UNIV PR
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198846568
ISBN13:
9780198846567
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
421 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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