03073cam a22004217i 4500 127639 20230410132608.0 170222s2015 enkab b 001 0 eng d 19508704 2016438910 9781851242573 1851242570 9781851242573 (OCoLC)ocn891615578 BTCTA eng BTCTA rda YDXCP BDX TXA EQO CHVBK NLGGC OCLCF ZWZ UOK DEBSZ VP@ XII DLC Eng lccopycat PR 3014 W595m 2015 822.33 Whitfield, Peter, 1947- Mapping Shakespeare's world / Peter Whitfield. Oxford : Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2015. 198 p. ; color ill., color maps ; 25 cm Includes bibliographical references (page 192) and index. Greece, Rome & the Mediterranean -- The dramas of European cities & courts -- British plays, ancient, medieval & modern. Shakespeare never set a play in his own Elizabethan London. From the castle in Elsinore where Hamlet avenges his father's death to Cleopatra's Alexandria at the height of the Roman Empire to the seaport town in Cyprus where we await the arrival of Othello, each of Shakespeare's plays is set in a time or space remote from his primary audience. Why is this? How much did the Bard and his contemporaries know about the foreign lands his characters often inhabit? What expectations did an audience have if the curtains rose on a play which claimed to take place in ancient Troy or the Pyrenean kingdom of Navarre in northern Spain? Mapping Shakespeare's World explores these questions with surprising results. It has often been said that setting is irrelevant to Shakespeare's plays -- that, wherever they are set, their enduring appeal lies in their ability to speak to broad questions of human nature. Peter Whitfield shows that, on the contrary, many of Shakespeare's locations were carefully chosen for their ability to convey subtle meanings an Elizabethan audience would have picked up on and understood. Through the use of paintings, drawings, contemporary maps and geographical texts, Whitfield suggests answers to such questions as where Illyria was located, why The Merry Wives of Windsor could only have taken place in Windsor, and how two utterly different comedies -- The Comedy of Errors and Pericles, Prince of Tyre -- both came to take place in ancient Ephesus. Publisher. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Settings. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Knowledge Geography. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Criticism and interpretation. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays. Geography in literature. Cartography History. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Crítica e interpretación. Bodleian Library, issuing body. lcc bk dvf 84335 84335 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 1 0 PR 3014 W595m 2015 00000119=952 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 bk