Mind-Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 10
Illustrations......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Introduction......Page 16
Voyage drama......Page 22
Lost plays......Page 25
Vicarious travel......Page 26
The scholarship of sightseeing......Page 28
1 The Wings of Active Thought......Page 34
Instructions for travel, or ars apodemica......Page 35
Mind-travelling......Page 40
The imagination and ideal presence......Page 49
Travelling at the theatre......Page 53
2 Marlovian Models of Voyage Drama......Page 66
The 'will to travel' in Marlovian drama......Page 67
The playwright's travels in 'map and card'......Page 72
Acting on knowledge: Faustus's journey 'to prove cosmography'......Page 78
Fortunatus and the wishing hat......Page 86
3 Morals, Manners, and Imagination: Jonson and Heywood......Page 98
Jonson's moral imperative......Page 99
Heywood and travel as a fantasy of escape......Page 111
Staging travel in Heywood's plays......Page 122
4 Therapeutic Travel in Richard Brome's The Antipodes......Page 138
Jonsonian psychology and drama......Page 139
Disdain for the familiar......Page 141
Peregrine as mind-travelling reader......Page 144
The stars change, the mind remains the same......Page 147
'Mandeville madness'......Page 153
5 Davenant, Saint-Évremond, Dryden, and the Ocular Dimension of Travel......Page 160
Davenant and the effects of perspectival scenery on mind-travelling......Page 162
Sightseeing and morality in Saint Évremond's Sir Politick Would-be......Page 179
Dryden's aesthetics and the theatre-as-prospective-glass......Page 185
6 Old Genres, New Worlds: Behn Domesticates the Exotic......Page 197
Virginian customs and culture in The Widow Ranter......Page 199
Women, marriage, and slaves......Page 208
A domestic tragedy in the New World......Page 218
Conclusion......Page 225
Bibliography......Page 229
Index......Page 245