Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198846567)

Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage argues that environment and embodied thought continually shaped one another in the performance of early modern English drama. It demonstrates this, first, by establishing how characters think through their surroundings --not only how they orient themselves within unfamiliar or otherwise strange locations, but also how their environs function as the scaffolding for perception, memory, and other forms of embodied thought. It then contends that these moments of thinking through place theorize and thematize the work that playgoers undertook in reimagining the stage as the setting of the dramatic fiction. By tracing the relationship between these two registers of thought in such plays as The Malcontent, Dido Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine, King Lear, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, and Bartholomew Fair, this book shows that drama makes visible the often invisible means by which embodied subjects acquire a sense of their surroundings. It also reveals how, in doing so, theater altered the way that playgoers perceived, experienced, and imagined place in early modern England.

Author: Andrew Bozio
ISBN-10: 0198846568
ISBN-13: 9780198846567
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 03/06/2020
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2021