Description: Further DetailsTitle: Mapping Shakespeare's WorldCondition: NewEAN: 9781851242573ISBN: 9781851242573Publisher: Bodleian LibraryFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/05/2016Item Height: 250mmItem Length: 210mmAuthor: Peter WhitfieldLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 1851242570Description: The locations of Shakespeare’s plays range from Greece, Turkey and Syria to England, and they range in time from 1000 BC to the early Tudor age. He never set a play explicitly in Elizabethan London, which he and his audience inhabited, but always in places remote in space or time. How much did he – and his contemporaries – know about the foreign cities where the plays took place? What expectations did an audience have if the curtain rose on a drama which claimed to take place in Verona, Elsinore, Alexandria or ancient Troy? This fully illustrated book explores these questions, surveying Shakespeare’s world through contemporary maps, geographical texts, paintings and drawings. The results are intriguing and sometimes surprising. Why should Love’s Labour’s Lost be set in the Pyrenean kingdom of Navarre? Was the Forest of Arden really in Warwickshire? Why do two utterly different plays like The Comedy of Errors and Pericles focus strongly on ancient Ephesus? Where was Illyria? Did the Merry Wives have to live in Windsor? Why did Shakespeare sometimes shift the settings of the plays from those he found in his literary sources? It has always been easy to say that wherever the plays are set, Shakespeare was really writing about human psychology and human nature, and that the settings are irrelevant. This book takes a different view, showing that many of his locations may have had resonances which an Elizabethan audience would pick up and understand, and it shows how significant the geographical and historical background of the plays could be.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Literary CriticismItem Weight: 758gRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Mapping Shakespeare's World
Title: Mapping Shakespeare's World
EAN: 9781851242573
ISBN: 9781851242573
Release Date: 02/05/2016
Release Year: 2016
ISBN-10: 1851242570
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Name: Mapping Shakespeare's World
Language: English
Publisher: Bodleian Library
Subject: Shakespeare
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2016
Item Weight: 26.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Peter Whitfield
Item Length: 9.7 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Drama
Item Width: 8.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback