Author

Publication

2013 - Palgrave MacMillan

Language

English

Word Count

59,000 words, Guess

Page Count

236 pages

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Classifications

  • LCCPN715-PN749PN1-6790P

Description

Early modern playgoers were avid consumers of voyage drama. When they entered the playhouse they engaged with the players in a collaborative form of 'mind-travelling, ' and the result was an experience of stage-travel that was predicated on pleasure. This book investigates the pleasures of vicarious travel in early modern England, treating playgoing as part of a playing system, wherein imaginative work is distributed across the various participants: playwright, player, the physical environment, technologies of the stage, and emphatically in this study, the playgoer. Drawing on a wide range of drama from across the entire seventeenth century, including works by Marlowe, Heywood, Jonson, Brome, Davenant, Dryden and Behn, it situates voyage drama in its historical and intellectual context between the individual act of reading in early modern England and the communal act of modern sightseeing.

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Other Editions

  • Mindtravelling And Voyage Drama In Early Modern EnglandPalgrave MacMillan2013-01-01

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