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| EARLY MODERN DRAMA AND THE EASTERN EUROPEAN ELSEWHERE: Representation of Liminal Locality in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries |
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Author - MONICA MATEI-CHESNOIU
Publication Date - August 2009
Number of Pages - 246
ISBN #9780838641958
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Price $55.00 - Price subject to change
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| Description |
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| This study integrates Renaissance texts of classical and early modern geography, cartography, and travel writing, and postmodern theory, to challenge the long-standing tradition of Eastern European space as a distant land of elsewhere and to demonstrate how contemporary modes of geographic thinking influenced aspects of English dramatic form. By examining the ways in which habits of thought derived from these texts informed Renaissance ideas about Eastern European space, this book shows how the threshold dividing the symbolic and the real is traversed and imagined as traversable. The study gives useful background on how Eastern European locations would have signified as marginal to early modern English audiences. Re-reading early modern texts ranging from geographic and travel accounts to the early modern drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, this study argues for a questioning and perspectival dimension of early modern subjectivity as fashioned by these texts, which emerges as enabling and compelling.
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| Author/Editor Biographies |
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| Monica Matei-Chesnoiu teaches English literature at Ovidius University Constanta. Among her books are Shakespeare in the Romanian Cultural Memory (FDU Press) and Shakespeare, Knowledge, and Truth. Her articles have been published in The Shakespeare Newsletter, The Shakespeare Yearbook, and other academic journals. She is a member of the Committee of Correspondents for the World Shakespeare Bibliography. Her academic career is mainly centered on Shakespeare and Early Modern studies. |
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Linda McJannet (Bentley University) - Renaissance Quarterly
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