Three Renaissance Travel Plays by Tony Parr

Three Renaissance Travel Plays by Tony Parr

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Summary

This volume brings together three little-known plays that convey England's early 17th-century fascination with travel and exploration. The texts are modernized with extensive commentaries and an introduction setting them in historical and cultural context.

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Three Renaissance Travel Plays by Tony Parr

This volume brings together three little-known plays that convey vividly the fascination in early seventeenth-century England with travel and exploration.. Three dramas of wandering and adventure which explore the great diversity of responses in the period to the lures of tourism and colonial expansion and to challenges posed by the encounter with exotic places and peoples.. Intellectually distinguished edition now available in paperback for the first time.. This collection presents modernised texts with an extensive commentary and a full introduction to set the plays in their historical and cultural context. -- .
Anthony Parr is Professor of English at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
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ISBN 13 9780719058004
ISBN 10 0719058007
Title Three Renaissance Travel Plays
Author Tony Parr
Series Revels Plays Companion Library
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Manchester University Press
Year published 2000-03-23
Number of pages 352
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