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Shakespeare and the geography of difference

In this engaging book, John Gillies explores Shakespeare's geographic imagination, and discovers an intimate relationship between Renaissance geography and theatre arising from a shared dependence on the opposing impulses of taboo-laden closure and hubristic expansiveness.
Print Book, English, 1994
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994
XIII, 255 p., [32] t., [1] t.fol. ill. 23 cm
9780521458535, 0521458536
1014973355
1. Mapping the other: Vico, Shakespeare and the geography of difference; 2. Of 'voyages and exploration: geography: maps'; 3. Theatres of the world; 4. 'The open worlde': the exotic in Shakespeare; 5. The frame of the new geography.