Brilliant, sensitive, and gifted, young Titus Booth has the world by the tail. His adoring father runs a thriving mercantile, while his beautiful mother arranges an unorthodox and entertaining education for her beloved boy genius. The death of his much-loved Granny Tess, a plucky Irish widow who posed as a man to fight in the Civil War, sets in motion a series of tragedies that make the young man question his very being. After a chance meeting with a wealthy benefactor who takes an unusual liking to him, Titus sets out on a grand world adventure to find his purpose and shape his inquiring...

Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage offers a timely alternative to theatre criticism's neglect of the intensely spatial character of theatrical performance. The book shows that early modern audiences were highly aware of the spatial aspects of the stage. West examines the ways Jacobean dramatists used stage space to explore the spatial transformations of early modern society - social mobility, wandering populations, rural enclosure, sea travel, localized empirical thought. Dramas by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Webster are scrutinized for their treatment of these...