Reading the road, from Shakespeare's crossways to Bunyan's highways. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lisa Hopkins and Bill Angus.
• Editors: Hopkins, Lisa, 1962-; Angus, Bill
• Contents: The low road and the high road: Macbeth and the way to Scotland / Lisa Hopkins -- Uncolting Falstaff: the oats complex and energy crisis in 1 Henry IV / Todd Andrew Borlik -- The night, the crossroads and the stake: Shakespeare and the outcast dead / Bill Angus -- Gender, vagrancy, and the culture of the early modern road in As You Like It / Karalyn Dokurno -- Traversing monstrosity: perilous women and powerful men upon Shakespeare's roads / Sharon Emmerichs -- Not so tedious ways to think about the locations of the early playhouses / Laurie Johnson -- Wandering fools and foolish vagrants: folly on the road in early modern English culture / Alice Equestri -- 'Fallen am I in dark uneven way': wandering from the road in early modern folklore and drama / Jennifer Allport Reid -- 'I must abroad or perish!': the meta-theatre of the road in Brome's A Jovial Crew / Kim Durban -- Staging the road: walking, talking, footing / Robert Stagg -- The road to Damascus and the road to hell in Philip Massinger's The Renegado: Islamic England and the Pauline crossroads / Paul Frazer -- How Margaret Cavendish mapped a blazing world -- 'The king's highway': reading England's road in The Pilgrim's Progress, Part I / Martha Lynn Russell
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 264 pages), illustrations (black and white), map
• Subjects: 820.9320903; Roads in literature; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; English literature -- Early modern; Roads in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474454131; 1474454135; 9781474454148; 1474454143
• Related ISBNs: 9781474454117; 1474454119
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index; Note: Description based on print version record
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