Thinking through place on the early modern English stage

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Bozio, Andrew, author

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"Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage traces the way that characters think through their surroundings in early modern drama, showing not only how these characters orient themsel...

"Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage traces the way that characters think through their surroundings in early modern drama, showing not only how these characters orient themselves within unfamiliar or otherwise strange locations but also how those locations function as the scaffolding for perception, memory, and other forms of embodied and affective thought. Such moments of "ecological thinking" show how performance brings places into being, and they reveal a process that both resembles and parallels the cognitive work that early modern playgoers undertook in reimagining the stage as the settings of the dramatic fiction. The book traces the vexed relationship between these two registers in works by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Beaumont, and Jonson. It thereby counters a critical tradition that figures drama as a form of spatial abstraction and demonstrates, instead, that theatrical performance constituted a sophisticated and self-reflexive mode of thinking through and about place in the early modern period."--Provided by publisher.

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