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Reading the road, from Shakespeare's crossways to Bunyan's highways /

This book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hopkins, Lisa, 1962- (Editor ), Angus, Bill (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The low road and the high road: Macbeth and the way to Scotland / Lisa Hopkins
  • Uncolting Falstaff: the oats complex and energy crisis in 1 Henry IV / Todd Andrew Borlik
  • The night, the crossroads and the stake: Shakespeare and the outcast dead / Bill Angus
  • Gender, vagrancy, and the culture of the early modern road in As You Like It / Karalyn Dokurno
  • Traversing monstrosity: perilous women and powerful men upon Shakespeare's roads / Sharon Emmerichs
  • Not so tedious ways to think about the locations of the early playhouses / Laurie Johnson
  • Wandering fools and foolish vagrants: folly on the road in early modern English culture / Alice Equestri
  • 'Fallen am I in dark uneven way': wandering from the road in early modern folklore and drama / Jennifer Allport Reid
  • 'I must abroad or perish!': the meta-theatre of the road in Brome's A Jovial Crew / Kim Durban
  • Staging the road: walking, talking, footing / Robert Stagg
  • The road to Damascus and the road to hell in Philip Massinger's The Renegado: Islamic England and the Pauline crossroads / Paul Frazer
  • How Margaret Cavendish mapped a blazing world
  • 'The king's highway': reading England's road in The Pilgrim's Progress, Part I / Martha Lynn Russell