Geo-spatial identity and early Modern European drama come together in this study of how cultural or political attachments are actively mediated through space. Matei-Chesnoiu traces the modulated representations of rivers, seas, mountains, and islands in sixteenth-century plays by Shakespeare, Jasper Fisher, Thomas May, and others.

Autorentext
Monica Matei-Chesnoiu is Professor of English literature at Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Recomposing Space within Geographic Diversity 2. Reclaimed Ancient and Renaissance Geographic Commentaries 3. Ovid, Pontus Euxinus, and Geographic Imagination 4. Hydrography as Poetics: Rivers and Empires 5. Cities of the Sea: Constantinople - Mobility and Cosmopolitanism 6. Isolarii or Performative Island Routes 7. Conclusions: Staging Telemesic Space