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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Garrett A Sullivan |
| ISBN: | 0804733031 9780804733038 |
| OCLC Number: | 39002854 |
| Description: | viii, 292 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction. Owning the Land: Landscape and English Renaissance Drama -- 1. "Arden Lay Murdered in That Plot of Ground": Surveying, Land, and Arden of Faversham -- 2. Strange Metamorphoses: Landscape and the Nation in Woodstock -- 3. Reading Shakespeare's Maps -- 4. Civilizing Wales: Cymbeline, Roads, and the Landscapes of Early Modern Britain -- 5. Knowing One's Place: The Highway, the Estate, and A Jovial Crew -- 6. The Beleaguered City: Guild Culture and Urban Space in Heywood's 1 Edward IV and Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI -- Coda. Retrieving Lost Landscapes. |
| Responsibility: | Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. |
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Abstract:
This book explores the ways in which a range of early modern plays - Shakespeare's King Lear, Cymbeline, and Richard II, Heywood's I Edward IV, Brome's A Jovial Crew, and the anonymous Arden of Faversham and Woodstock - intervene in the ongoing reconceptualization of land and land ownership in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In addition to plays, the author looks at a variety of texts - ballads, estate surveys, accounts of coronation processions, county atlases and spaces, the highway, the city, the market town, the estate - in order to retrieve forgotten landscapes of early modern England.
The book shows that Renaissance dramatic texts participate in the construction of an array of early modern landscapes, thereby producing multiple conceptions of the relationship between land and social relations. These conceptions both reformulate the category of landscape and reveal the contributions of literary and nonliterary texts to an ongoing ideological struggle over the ways in which land can mean.
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- English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
- Landscapes in literature.
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
- Social classes in literature.
- Land tenure in literature.
- Property in literature.
- Théâtre anglais -- 16e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
- Paysage dans la littérature.
- Littérature et société -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 16e siècle.
- Littérature et société -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
- Classes sociales dans la littérature.
- Propriété foncière dans la littérature.
- Propriété dans la littérature.
- Landschaft <Motiv>
- Renaissance.
- Drama.
- Englisch.
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