Reading the Road, from Shakespeare’s Crossways to Bunyan’s Highways /

Reading the Road, from Shakespeare’s Crossways to Bunyan’s Highways / / Lisa Hopkins, Bill Angus.

Explores how cultural conceptions of mobility and the road contribute to identity and culture in early modern BritainOpens new windows on early modern culture, subjectivity and perceptions around the experience of the road and how that shapes the idea of the road itselfOffers insight into the ways b...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
VerfasserIn:
Hopkins, Lisa,
Angus, Bill,
MitwirkendeR:
Allport Reid, Jennifer,
Angus, Bill,
Borlik, Todd Andrew,
Dokurno, Karalyn,
Durban, Kim,
Emmerichs, Sharon,
Equestri, Alice,
Frazer, Paul,
Hopkins, Lisa,
Johnson, Laurie,
Russell, Martha Lynn,
Stagg, Robert,
Wynne-Davies, Marion,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2019
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 5 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Allegories, Economies and Resonances of the Road
  • I. Shakespeare’s Roads
  • 1 The Low Road and the High Road: Macbeth and the Way to Scotland
  • 2 Uncolting Falstaff: The Oats Complex and Energy Crisis in 1 Henry IV
  • 3 The Night, the Crossroads and the Stake: Shakespeare and the Outcast Dead
  • 4 Gender, Vagrancy and the Culture of the Early Modern Road in As You Like It
  • 5 Traversing Monstrosity: Perilous Women and Powerful Men upon Shakespeare’s Roads
  • II. The Embodied Road
  • 6 Not So Tedious Ways to Think about the Locations of the Early Playhouses
  • 7 Wandering Fools and Foolish Vagrants: Folly on the Road in Early Modern English Culture
  • 8 ‘Fallen Am I in Dark Uneven Way’: Wandering from the Road in Early Modern Folklore and Drama
  • 9 ‘I Must Abroad or Perish!’: The Meta-theatre of the Road in Brome’s A Jovial Crew
  • III. Writing the Road
  • 10 Staging the Road: Walking, Talking, Footing
  • 11 The Road to Damascus and the Road to Hell in Philip Massinger’s The Renegado: Islamic England and the Pauline Crossroads
  • 12 How Margaret Cavendish Mapped a Blazing World
  • 13 ‘The King’s Highway’: Reading England’s Road in The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part I
  • Conclusion
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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