Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference

by John Gillies

In this engaging book, John Gillies explores Shakespeare's geographic imagination, and discovers an intimate relationship between Renaissance geography and theatre, arising from their shared dependence on the opposing impulses of taboo-laden closure and hubristic expansiveness. Dr Gillies shows that Shakespeare's images of the exotic, the 'barbarous, outlandish or strange', are grounded in concrete historical fact: to be marginalised was not just...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521458536
• ISBN13: 9780521458535
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"