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Geocriticismand Spatial LiteraryStudies SeriesEditor: ROBERTT.TALLYJR.,TexasStateUniversity Seriesdescription: GeocriticismandSpatialLiteraryStudies is a new book series focusing on the dynamic relations among space, place, and literature. The spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has occasioned an explosion of innova- tive, multidisciplinary scholarship in recent years, and geocriticism, broadly conceived,hasbeenamongthemorepromisingdevelopmentsinspatiallyori- ented literary studies. Whether focused on literary geography, cartography, geopoetics, or the spatial humanities more generally, geocritical approaches enablereaderstoreflectupontherepresentationofspaceandplace,bothin imaginary universes and in those zones where fiction meets reality. Titles in the series include both monographs and collections of essays devoted to lit- erary criticism, theory, and history, often in association with other arts and sciences. Drawing on diverse critical and theoretical traditions, books in the GeocriticismandSpatialLiteraryStudiesseriesdisclose,analyze,andexplore thesignificanceofspace,place,andmappinginliteratureandintheworld. Robert T. Tally Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Texas State Univer- sity, USA. His work explores the relations among narrative, representation, and social space in American and world literature, criticism, and theory. Tally has been recognized as a leading figure in the emerging fields of geocriticism, spatiality studies, and the spatial humanities. Tally’s books includeFredricJameson:TheProjectofDialecticalCriticism;PoeandtheSub- versionofAmericanLiterature:Satire,Fantasy,Critique;UtopiaintheAgeof Globalization: Space, Representation, and the World System; Spatiality; Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel: A Postmodern Iconography; and Melville, Mapping and Globalization: Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer.ThetranslatorofBertrandWestphal’sGeocriticism:RealandFictional Spaces, Tally is the editor of GeocriticalExplorations:Space,Place,andMap- pinginLiteraryandCulturalStudies;KurtVonnegut:CriticalInsights;and LiteraryCartographies:Spatiality,Representation,andNarrative. Titlestodate: CosmopolitanismandPlace:SpatialFormsinContemporaryAnglophone Literature ByEmilyJohansen LiteraryCartographies:Spatiality,Representation,andNarrative EditedbyRobertT.TallyJr. The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said: Spatiality, Critical Humanism, andComparativeLiterature EditedbyRobertT.TallyJr. SpatialEngagementwithPoetry ByHeatherH.Yeung Literature’sSensuousGeographies:PostcolonialMattersofPlace ByStenPultzMoslund GeoparsingEarlyModernEnglishDrama ByMonicaMatei-Chesnoiu Geoparsing Early Modern English Drama Monica Matei-Chesnoiu GEOPARSINGEARLYMODERNENGLISHDRAMA Copyright©MonicaMatei-Chesnoiu,2015. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-47968-6 Allrightsreserved. Firstpublishedin2015by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN® intheUnitedStates—adivisionofSt.Martin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. WherethisbookisdistributedintheUK,Europeandtherestofthe World,thisisbyPalgraveMacmillan,adivisionofMacmillanPublishers Limited,registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,of Houndmills,Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabove companiesandhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnited States,theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-50253-0 ISBN 978-1-137-46941-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137469410 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Matei-Chesnoiu,Monica,1954– GeoparsingearlymodernEnglishdrama/MonicaMatei-Chesnoiu. pages cm.—(Geocriticismandspatialliterarystudies) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1. Englishdrama—EarlymodernandElizabethan,1500–1600— Historyandcriticism. 2. Englishdrama—17thcentury— Historyandcriticism. 3. Geographyinliterature. 4. Landscapesinliterature. I. Title. PR658.G46M352015 822(cid:2).309358—dc23 2014037210 AcataloguerecordofthebookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. DesignbyIntegraSoftwareServices Firstedition:March2015 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Tomyhusband,John This page intentionally left blank Contents ListofIllustrations ix SeriesEditor’sPreface xi Acknowledgments xiii NoteonQuotationsandTranslations xvii 1 Introduction:RecomposingSpacewithinGeographic Diversity 1 2 ReclaimedAncientandRenaissanceGeographic Commentaries 25 3 Ovid,PontusEuxinus,andGeographicImagination 59 4 HydrographyasPoetics:RiversandEmpires 81 5 CitiesoftheSea:Constantinople—Mobilityand Cosmopolitanism 111 6 Isolarii orPerformativeIslandRoutes 135 7 Conclusions:StagingTelemesicSpace 163 Notes 171 Bibliography 215 Index 237 This page intentionally left blank Illustrations COVER ILLUSTRATION: Map by Antonio Lafreri. Melita: Insula DiviPauliApostoliquondamhospita. Romae: Antonio Lafreri, 1565. BypermissionofUniversityofBaselLibrary,KartenslgAA78. 1.1 TitlepageofGeorgBraunandFranzHogenberg. Civitatesorbisterrarum.Urbiumpraecipuarumtotius mundi.Libertertius.ColoniaeAgrippinae:Apud GodefridumKempensen,1581.Bypermissionof UniversityofBaselLibrary,EUUI11a:3 18 2.1 TitlepageofSebastianMünster.Cosmographiae universalisLib.VI.Basileae:apudHenrichumPetri, 1552.BypermissionofUniversityofBaselLibrary, AmerbachEdition,Mey116 42 5.1 TomasoPorcacchi.“DescrittionediConstantinopoli” (DescriptionofConstantinople).L’isolepiufamosedel mondo.Venetia:GirolamoPorro,1576,p.131.By permissionofUniversityofBaselLibrary,RC77 121 6.1 SebastianMünster,CosmographiaeUniversalis.Liber I.Basileae:apudHenrichumPetri,1552.Chapter3, “Deinsulis,”p.3.BypermissionofUniversityof BaselLibrary,AmerbachEdition,Mey116 137 6.2 BenedettoBordone.“Rhodo”(Rhodes).Librodi BenedettoBordone.Venezia:Niccolod’Aristotele, 1528,p.52v.BypermissionofUniversityofBasel Library,ANI18 140 6.3 MapbyNiccolòNelli.Ilportodell’isoladiMalta. Venezia:NiccolòNelli,1565.Bypermissionof UniversityofBaselLibrary,KartenslgAA81 145

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