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Hamlet (Paperback)
Nigel Bakker, Bernadette Masala, Anthony Parr, Lorraine Singh
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R273
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Discovery Miles 2 410
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A vogue for travel 'stunts' flourished in England between 1590 and
the 1620s: playful imitations or burlesques of maritime enterprise
and overland travel that collectively appear to be a response to
particular innovations and developments in English culture. This
study is the first full length scholarly work to focus on the
curious phenomenon of 'madde voiages', as the writer William Rowley
called them. Anthony Parr shows that the mad voyage (as Rowley and
others conceived it) had surprisingly deep and diverse roots in
traditional travel practices, in courtly play and mercantile
custom, and in literary culture. Looking in detail at several of
the best-documented exploits, Parr situates them in the ferment of
such ventures during the period in question; but also reaches back
to explore their classical and mediaeval antecedents, and considers
their role in creating a template for eccentric English adventure
in later centuries. Renaissance Mad Voyages brings together
literary and historical enquiry in order to address the
implications of an interesting and neglected cultural trend. Parr's
investigation of the rash of travel exploits in the period leads to
extensive research on the origins of the wager on travel and its
role in the expansion of English tourism and trading activity.
A vogue for travel 'stunts' flourished in England between 1590 and
the 1620s: playful imitations or burlesques of maritime enterprise
and overland travel that collectively appear to be a response to
particular innovations and developments in English culture. This
study is the first full length scholarly work to focus on the
curious phenomenon of 'madde voiages', as the writer William Rowley
called them. Anthony Parr shows that the mad voyage (as Rowley and
others conceived it) had surprisingly deep and diverse roots in
traditional travel practices, in courtly play and mercantile
custom, and in literary culture. Looking in detail at several of
the best-documented exploits, Parr situates them in the ferment of
such ventures during the period in question; but also reaches back
to explore their classical and mediaeval antecedents, and considers
their role in creating a template for eccentric English adventure
in later centuries. Renaissance Mad Voyages brings together
literary and historical enquiry in order to address the
implications of an interesting and neglected cultural trend. Parr's
investigation of the rash of travel exploits in the period leads to
extensive research on the origins of the wager on travel and its
role in the expansion of English tourism and trading activity.
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