Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference

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In this engaging book, John Gillies explores Shakespeare's geographic imagination, and discovers an intimate relationship between Renaissance geography and theatre arising from a shared dependence on the opposing impulses of taboo-laden closure and hubristic expansiveness.

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Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference by John Gillies

In this engaging book, John Gillies explores Shakespeare's geographic imagination, and discovers an intimate relationship between Renaissance geography and theatre, arising from their shared dependence on the opposing impulses of taboo-laden closure and hubristic expansiveness. Dr Gillies shows that Shakespeare's images of the exotic, the 'barbarous, outlandish or strange', are grounded in concrete historical fact: to be marginalised was not just a matter of social status, but of belonging, quite literally, to the margins of contemporary maps. Through an examination of the icons and emblems of contemporary cartography, Dr Gillies challenges the map-makers' overt intentions, and the attitudes and assumptions that remained below the level of consciousness. His study of map and metaphor raises profound questions about the nature of a map, and of the connections between the semiology of a map and that of the theatre.
'[An] absorbing and challenging book' John Scattergood, Theatre Research International
Gillies, John: - 1712-1796
SKU Non disponible
ISBN 13 9780521458535
ISBN 10 0521458536
Titre Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference
Auteur John Gillies
Série Cambridge Studies In Renaissance Literature And Culture
État Non disponible
Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur Cambridge University Press
Année de publication 1994-05-12
Nombre de pages 308
Note de couverture La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
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