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Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage
Russell West
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Description for Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage
Paperback. This book traces the transformations of social space in early modern England and their stage representations. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349429820
SKU
V9781349429820
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99-15
About Russell West
RUSSELL WEST is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Lüneburg, Germany.
Reviews for Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage
'This brilliant, theoretically complex book is a welcome addition to the growing body of renaissance critical discourse on social space and its relationship to the literary and cultural environment of the early modern period...The book's final chapter is astonishingly original and will hopefully point the way ahead for other reaissance scholarship into space and literature...This section, like other approaches in ... Read more