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This edited collection examines the meeting points between travel,
mobility, and conflict to uncover the experience of travel -
whether real or imagined - in the early modern world. Until
relatively recently, both domestic travel and voyages to the wider
world remained dangerous undertakings. Physical travel, whether
initiated by religious conversion and pilgrimage, diplomacy, trade,
war, or the desire to encounter other cultures, inevitably heralded
disruption: contact zones witnessed cultural encounters that were
not always cordial, despite the knowledge acquisition and financial
gain that could be reaped from travel. Vast compendia of travel
such as Hakluyt's Principla Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries,
printed from the late sixteenth century, and Prevost's Histoire
Generale des Voyages (1746-1759) underscored European exploration
as a marker of European progress, and in so doing showed the
tensions that can arise as a consequence of interaction with other
cultures. In focusing upon language acquisition and translation,
travel and religion, travel and politics, and imaginary travel, the
essays in this collection tease out the ways in which travel was
both obstructed and enriched by conflict.
Staging the revolution offers a reappraisal of the weight and
volume of theatrical output during the commonwealth and early
Restoration, both in terms of live performances and performances on
the paper stage. It argues that the often-cited notion that 1642
marked an end to theatrical production in England until the
playhouses were reopened in 1660 is a product of post-Restoration
re-writing of the English civil wars and the representations of
royalists and parliamentarians that emerged in the 1640s and 1650s.
These retellings of recent events in dramatic form mean that drama
is central to civil-war discourse. Staging the revolution examines
the ways in which drama was used to rewrite the civil war and
commonwealth period and demonstrates that, far from marking a clear
cultural demarcation from the theatrical output of the early
seventeenth century, the Restoration is constantly reflecting back
on the previous thirty years. -- .
Staging the revolution offers a reappraisal of the weight and
volume of theatrical output during the commonwealth and early
Restoration, both in terms of live performances and performances on
the paper stage. It argues that the often-cited notion that 1642
marked an end to theatrical production in England until the
playhouses were reopened in 1660 is a product of post-Restoration
re-writing of the English civil wars and the representations of
royalists and parliamentarians that emerged in the 1640s and 1650s.
These retellings of recent events in dramatic form mean that drama
is central to civil-war discourse. Staging the revolution examines
the ways in which drama was used to rewrite the civil war and
commonwealth period and demonstrates that, far from marking a clear
cultural demarcation from the theatrical output of the early
seventeenth century, the Restoration is constantly reflecting back
on the previous thirty years. -- .
This edited collection examines the meeting points between travel,
mobility, and conflict to uncover the experience of travel -
whether real or imagined - in the early modern world. Until
relatively recently, both domestic travel and voyages to the wider
world remained dangerous undertakings. Physical travel, whether
initiated by religious conversion and pilgrimage, diplomacy, trade,
war, or the desire to encounter other cultures, inevitably heralded
disruption: contact zones witnessed cultural encounters that were
not always cordial, despite the knowledge acquisition and financial
gain that could be reaped from travel. Vast compendia of travel
such as Hakluyt's Principla Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries,
printed from the late sixteenth century, and Prevost's Histoire
Generale des Voyages (1746-1759) underscored European exploration
as a marker of European progress, and in so doing showed the
tensions that can arise as a consequence of interaction with other
cultures. In focusing upon language acquisition and translation,
travel and religion, travel and politics, and imaginary travel, the
essays in this collection tease out the ways in which travel was
both obstructed and enriched by conflict.
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