Three Renaissance travel plays : The travels of the three English brothers ; The sea voyage ; The antipodes
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Three Renaissance travel plays : The travels of the three English brothers ; The sea voyage ; The antipodes
（The Revels plays companion library / E.A.J. Honigmann ... [et al.], general editors）
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1995
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"The travels of the three English brothers", by John Day, William Rowley and George Wilkins, first published in 1607
"The sea voyage", by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont, first acted in 1622, first published in 1647
"The antipodes" by Richard Brome, first published in 1640
Includes bibliographical refernces and index to the comentary
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume brings together three little-known plays that convey vividly the fascination with travel and exploration in early 17th-century England. The plays are: "Travels of the Three English Brothers" by John Day, William Rowley and George Wilkins; "The Sea Voyage" by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger; and "The Antipodes" by Richard Brome. In their different ways the plays are all dramas of wandering and adventure, which show an increasingly sophisticated response to the act of travel, both in the attitudes and behaviour of characters and in the methods used to represent it. Each play explores the great diversity of responses in the period to the lures of tourism and colonialism, and the challenges posed by the encounter with exotic places and peoples. The first two plays appear in a modern edition. There is also a commentary and an introduction to set the plays within their historical and cultural context.
Table of Contents
- Learning at home
- brothers and others - "The Travels of the Three English Brothers"
- piracy and settlement - "The Sea Voyage"
- free of the company of venturers - a parenthesis
- nowhere is a place - "The Antipodes"
- a note on the texts. The plays: "The Travels of the Three English Brothers"
- "The Sea Voyage"
- "The Antipodes".
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