Re-imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama [Hardcover]

Matei-Chesnoiu examines the changing understanding of world geography in sixteenth-century England and the concomitant involvement of the London theatre in shaping a new perception of Western European space. Fresh readings are offered of Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, Dekker, Massinger, Marston, and others.Acknowledgements Introduction: Dramatic Geographies of the Self Geography as the Eye of History Romanticized France in the English Imagination Shifting Views of the German Principalities Geography and Trade: The Low Countries and Denmark Spain from Court to Country Notes Bibliography Index

This is an intriguing book with wide cross-disciplinary appeal, engaging with literary, political, historical and geographical texts to show the interwoven nature of places, peoples, events and representations. - Literature & History

Monica Matei-Chesnoiu is Professor of English literature at Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania.