Offers new ways to conceptualize the relationship between early modern travel and drama, and re-assesses how travel drama is defined.
Introduction: understanding the early modern journeying play Claire Jowitt and David McInnis; 1. 'For his travailes let the Globe witnesse': venturing on the stage in early modern England Anthony Parr; 2. Seeing and overseeing the stage as map in Early Modern drama Ladan Niayesh; 3. Marlowe's Mediterranean and counter-epic forms of oceanic hybridity Steve Mentz; 4. Making the land known: Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 and the literature of perambulation Julie Sanders; 5. Eastward Ho and the traffic of the stage Andrew Gordon; 6. Language and seafaring in Thomas Middleton and John Webster's Anything for a Quiet Life Marianne Montgomery; 7. Rogue cosmopolitans on the Early Modern stage: John Ward, Thomas Stukeley, and the Sherley brothers Daniel Vitkus; 8. Drama at sea: a new look at Shakespeare on the Dragon, 1607-8 Richmond Barbour and Bernhard Klein; 9. Strange bedfellows: the ordinary undersides of 'a true reportory' and The Tempest Emily C. Bartels; 10. Travelling characters in early modern drama David McInnis; 11. 'Constant changelings', theatrical form, and migration: stage travel in the early 1620s Clare McManus; 12. The uses of cultural encounter in Sir William Davenant's Caroline-to-Restoration voyage drama Claire Jowitt.