Travel and Drama in Shakespeare's Time [Hardcover]

Interconnections between voyage narratives and travel plays in Shakespeare's era.This book explores interconnections between voyage narratives and travel plays in a period of intense foreign relations and the incipient colonisation of the New World. Eminent Renaissance scholars use historical enquiry and textual analysis to offer new readings of narrative and dramatic texts, like The Spanish Tragedy, Dr Faustus, Eastward Ho or The Tempest, together with relati vely obscure works.They are envisaged both in the context of the period and from the the far-reaching perspective of Britain's cultural history.This book explores interconnections between voyage narratives and travel plays in a period of intense foreign relations and the incipient colonisation of the New World. Eminent Renaissance scholars use historical enquiry and textual analysis to offer new readings of narrative and dramatic texts, like The Spanish Tragedy, Dr Faustus, Eastward Ho or The Tempest, together with relati vely obscure works.They are envisaged both in the context of the period and from the the far-reaching perspective of Britain's cultural history.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 enquiry and textual analysis to offer new readings of narrative and dramatic texts, such as The Spanish Tragedy, Dr. Faustus, Eastward Ho! or The Tempest, together with relatively obscure works. They are envisaged both in the context of the period and from the far-reaching perspective of Britain's cultural history.List of contributors; 1. Introduction Jean-Pierre Maquerlot and Mich?le Willems; 2. Foreign relations in Jacobean England: the Sherley brothers and the 'voyage of Persia' Anthony Parr; 3. 'The naked and the dead': Elizabethan perceptions of Ireland Andrew Hadfield; 4. The Elizabethans in Italy Jonathan Bate; 5. Tragic form and the vlso