Early Modern Drama and the Eastern Europen Elsewhere: Representation of Liminal Locality in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

by Monica Matei-chesnoiu

This study integrates Renaissance texts of classical and early modern geography, cartography, and travel writing, and postmodern theory, to challenge the long-standing tradition of Eastern European space as a distant land of elsewhere and to demonstrate how contemporary modes of geographic thinking influenced aspects of English dramatic form. By examining the ways in which habits of thought derived from these texts informed Renaissance ideas about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611474035
• ISBN13: 9781611474039
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 306 Pages