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This book explores interconnections between voyage narratives and travel plays in a period of intense foreign relations and the incipient colonization of the New World. Eminent Renaissance scholars use historical inquiry and textual analysis to offer readings of narrative and dramatic texts, envisaged both in the context of the period and from the far-reaching perspective of Britain's cultural history. Plays like The Spanish Tragedy, Doctor Faustus, Eastward Ho! or The Tempest - itself the subject of three chapters - are discussed alongside relatively obscure works. The plays are never approached as mere cultural documents. The underlying assumption is that the theatre is not reducible to a medium for conflicting ideologies but should be viewed as a privileged site of various meanings, of roads leading in several directions.

Reis in de literatuur --- Reizen in de literatuur --- Reizigers in de literatuur --- Travel in literature --- Travelers in literature --- Travellers in literature --- Voyage dans la littérature --- Voyages dans la littérature --- Voyageurs dans la littérature --- Travel writing --- English drama --- Travelers' writings, English --- Renaissance --- History --- History and criticism --- Shakespeare, William, --- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 --- Travelers' writings [English ] --- 17th century --- Shakespeare, William --- Contemporary England --- England --- Renaissance - England. --- Travelers in literature. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Travel writing - History - 17th century --- English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 --- Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism --- English drama - 17th century - History and criticism --- Renaissance - England --- Shakespeare, William, - 1564-1616 --- Travel in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Travel --- Authorship --- Voyages and travels in literature --- Atwood, Margaret, --- Summer, Joseph. --- Tsao, Ming. --- Arensky, Anton, --- Chihara, Paul, --- Primosch, James. --- Weir, Judith. --- Smuin, Michael.