Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage Hardback
by Katja Pilhuj
Part of the Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World series
Hardback
Description
In a late 1590s atlas proof from cartographer John Speed, Queen Elizabeth appears, crowned and brandishing a ruler as the map's scale-of-miles.
Not just a map key, the queen's depiction here presents her as a powerful arbiter of measurement in her kingdom.
For Speed, the queen was a formidable female presence, authoritative, ready to measure any place or person.
The atlas, finished during James' reign, later omitted her picture.
But this disappearance did not mean Elizabeth vanished entirely; her image and her connection to geography appear in multiple plays and maps.
Elizabeth becomes, like the ruler she holds, an instrument applied and adapted.
Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage explores the ways in which mapmakers, playwrights, and audiences in early modern England could, following their queen's example, use the ideas of geography, or 'world-writing', to reshape the symbolic import of the female body and territory to create new identities.
The book demonstrates how early modern mapmakers and dramatists -- men and women -- conceived of and constructed identities within a discourse of fluid ideas about space and gender.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:276 pages, 22 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
- Publication Date:21/10/2019
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- ISBN:9789463722018
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:276 pages, 22 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
- Publication Date:21/10/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9789463722018
