Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage: From Shakespeare to Webster

by Russell West

This work offers a timely alternative to theater criticism's neglect of the intensely spatial character of theatrical performance by showing that early modern audiences were highly aware of the spatial aspects of the stage. Jacobean dramatists used stage space to explore the spatial transformations of early modern society--social mobility, wandering populations, rural enclosure, sea travel, localized empirical thought.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333973739
• ISBN13: 9780333973738
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"