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Mapping Shakespeare's World
Peter Whitfield
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Description for Mapping Shakespeare's World
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 110 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 210. .
The locations of Shakespeare's plays range from Greece, Turkey and Syria to England, and they range in time from 1000 BC to the early Tudor age. He never set a play explicitly in Elizabethan London, which he and his audience inhabited, but always in places remote in space or time. How much did he - and his contemporaries - know about the foreign cities where the plays took place? What expectations did an audience have if the curtain rose on a drama which claimed to take place in Verona, Elsinore, Alexandria or ancient Troy? This fully illustrated ... Read more
The locations of Shakespeare's plays range from Greece, Turkey and Syria to England, and they range in time from 1000 BC to the early Tudor age. He never set a play explicitly in Elizabethan London, which he and his audience inhabited, but always in places remote in space or time. How much did he - and his contemporaries - know about the foreign cities where the plays took place? What expectations did an audience have if the curtain rose on a drama which claimed to take place in Verona, Elsinore, Alexandria or ancient Troy? This fully illustrated ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Bodleian Library United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
754g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851242573
SKU
V9781851242573
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About Peter Whitfield
Peter Whitfield writes on history, literary criticism and poetry. His Travel: A Literary History was published in 2011.
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