Early Modern Drama and the Eastern European Elsewhere: Representations of Liminal Locality in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Matei-Chesnoiu (English literature, Ovidius U. Constanta, Romania) investigates the impact of geography and travel on the framing of a specific British spatial imagination in relation to eastern Europe, and how it shaped and was shaped by intercultural exchange in early modern Europe. Among the dimensions she explores are histories and Roman plays as ancient fables of eccentric lands, early modern chorographies of eastern European regions, early modern drama about central European spaces, romances and theatrical geography, and eastern European liminal locality. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)