Reading the Road, from Shakespeare's Crossways to Bunyan's Highways

ISBN-13: 9781474454124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 272 str.

Lisa Hopkins;Bill Angus

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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. Chapters develop our understanding of the place of the road in the early modern imagination and open various windows on a geography which may by its nature seem passing or trivial but is in fact central to all conceptions of movement. They also shed new light on perhaps the most astonishing achievement of early modern plays: their use of one small, bare space to suggest an amazing variety of physical and potentially metaphysical locations.

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Introduction: Allegories, Economies and Resonances of the Road, Bill Angus and Lisa Hopkins; Part I. Shakespeare’s Roads; Chapter 1. The Low Road and the High Road: Macbeth and the Way to Scotland, Lisa Hopkins; Chapter 2. Uncolting Falstaff: The Oats Complex and Energy Crisis in 1 Henry IV, Todd Andrew Borlik; Chapter 3. The Night, the Crossroads and the Stake: Shakespeare and the Outcast Dead, Bill Angus; Chapter 4. Gender, Vagrancy, and the Culture of the Early Modern Road in As You Like It, Karalyn Dokurno; Chapter 5. Traversing Monstrosity: Perilous Women and Powerful Men upon Shakespeare’s Roads, Sharon Emmerichs; Part II. The Embodied Road; Chapter 6. Not So Tedious Ways to Think about the Locations of the Early Playhouses, Laurie Johnson; Chapter 7. Wandering Fools and Foolish Vagrants: Folly on the Road in Early Modern English Culture, Alice Equestri; Chapter 8. ‘Fallen Am I in Dark Uneven Way’: Wandering from the Road in Early Modern Folklore and Drama, Jennifer Allport Reid; Chapter 9. ‘I must abroad or perish!’: The Meta-theatre of the Road in Brome’s A Jovial Crew, Kim Durban; Part III. Writing the Road; Chapter 10. Staging the road: walking, talking, footing, Robert Stagg; Chapter 11. The Road to Damascus and the Road to Hell in Philip Massinger’s The Renegado: Islamic England and the Pauline Crossroads, Paul; Frazer; Chapter 12. How Margaret Cavendish Mapped a Blazing World, Marion Wynne-Davies; Chapter 13. ‘The King’s Highway:’ Reading England’s Road in The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part I., Martha Lynn Russell; Conclusion, Lisa Hopkins and Bill Angus; Index.