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

Lisa Hopkins; Bill Angus

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2019

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

Lisa Hopkins and Bill Angus

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474454131

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Explores how cultural conceptions of mobility and the road contribute to identity and culture in early modern Britain

Opens new windows on early modern culture, subjectivity and perceptions around the experience of the road and how that shapes the idea of the road itself
Offers insight into the ways both the bare boards of the stage and prose narratives were used to imagine road journeys and the intersections between public and private space
Enhances historical understanding of the literal place of theatre in the road networks around early modern London
Provides a crucial ligature in English literary and cultural history. The present plays and prose are prolegomena to the travel literature of Montagu, Swift, Boswell and Johnson in the Hebrides, Sterne’s Sentimental Journey, Fielding’s Tom Jones, and peripatetic Civil War narratives

This book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture. Chapters develop our understanding of the place of the road in the early modern imagination and open various windows on a geography which may by its nature seem passing or trivial but is in fact central to all conceptions of movement. They also shed new light on perhaps the most astonishing achievement of early modern plays: their use of one small, bare space to suggest an amazing variety of physical and potentially metaphysical locations.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction: Allegories, Economies and Resonances of the Road Bill Angus and Lisa Hopkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Shakespeare’s Roads
1 The Low Road and the High Road: Macbeth and the Way to Scotland Lisa Hopkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2 Uncolting Falstaff: The Oats Complex and Energy Crisis in 1 Henry IV Todd Andrew Borlik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3 The Night, the Crossroads and the Stake: Shakespeare and the Outcast Dead Bill Angus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
4 Gender, Vagrancy and the Culture of the Early Modern Road in As You Like It Karalyn Dokurno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
5 Traversing Monstrosity: Perilous Women and Powerful Men upon Shakespeare’s Roads Sharon Emmerichs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
II. The Embodied Road
6 Not So Tedious Ways to Think about the Locations of the Early Playhouses Laurie Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
7 Wandering Fools and Foolish Vagrants: Folly on the Road in Early Modern English Culture Alice Equestri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
8 ‘Fallen Am I in Dark Uneven Way’: Wandering from the Road in Early Modern Folklore and Drama Jennifer Allport Reid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
9 ‘I Must Abroad or Perish!’: The Meta-theatre of the Road in Brome’s A Jovial Crew Kim Durban Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
III. Writing the Road
10 Staging the Road: Walking, Talking, Footing Robert Stagg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
11 The Road to Damascus and the Road to Hell in Philip Massinger’s The Renegado: Islamic England and the Pauline Crossroads Paul Frazer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
12 How Margaret Cavendish Mapped a Blazing World Marion Wynne-Davies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
13 ‘The King’s Highway’: Reading England’s Road in The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part I Martha Lynn Russell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
Conclusion Lisa Hopkins and Bill Angus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Other: 5 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474454131