Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Foreign relations in Jacobean England: the Sherley brothers and the ‘voyage of Persia’
- 3 ‘The naked and the dead’: Elizabethan perceptions of Ireland
- 4 The Elizabethans in Italy
- 5 Tragic form and the voyagers
- 6 Nationality and language in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy
- 7 Marlowe's Argonauts
- 8 Pirates and ‘turning Turk’ in Renaissance drama
- 9 The wrong end of the telescope
- 10 ‘Travelling hopefully’: the dramatic form of journeys in English Renaissance drama
- 11 ‘Seeing things’: Amazons and cannibals
- 12 Industrious Ariel and idle Caliban
- 13 The New World in The Tempest
- 14 ‘What's past is prologue’: metatheatrical memory and transculturation in The Tempest
- 15 Lope de Vega and Shakespeare
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Foreign relations in Jacobean England: the Sherley brothers and the ‘voyage of Persia’
- 3 ‘The naked and the dead’: Elizabethan perceptions of Ireland
- 4 The Elizabethans in Italy
- 5 Tragic form and the voyagers
- 6 Nationality and language in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy
- 7 Marlowe's Argonauts
- 8 Pirates and ‘turning Turk’ in Renaissance drama
- 9 The wrong end of the telescope
- 10 ‘Travelling hopefully’: the dramatic form of journeys in English Renaissance drama
- 11 ‘Seeing things’: Amazons and cannibals
- 12 Industrious Ariel and idle Caliban
- 13 The New World in The Tempest
- 14 ‘What's past is prologue’: metatheatrical memory and transculturation in The Tempest
- 15 Lope de Vega and Shakespeare
- Index
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- Travel and Drama in Shakespeare's Time , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996