Reading the road, from Shakespeare's crossways to Bunyan's highways /edited by Lisa Hopkins and Bill Angus

This book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture

The low road and the high road: Macbeth and the way to Scotland / Lisa Hopkins -- Uncolting Falstaff: the oats complex and energy crisis in 1 Henry IV / Todd Andrew Borlik -- The night, the crossroads and the stake: Shakespeare and the outcast dead / Bill Angus -- Gender, vagrancy, and the culture of the early modern road in As You Like It / Karalyn Dokurno -- Traversing monstrosity: perilous women and powerful men upon Shakespeare's roads / Sharon Emmerichs -- Not so tedious ways to think about the locations of the early playhouses / Laurie Johnson -- Wandering fools and foolish vagrants: folly on the road in early modern English culture / Alice Equestri -- 'Fallen am I in dark uneven way': wandering from the road in early modern folklore and drama / Jennifer Allport Reid -- 'I must abroad or perish!': the meta-theatre of the road in Brome's A Jovial Crew / Kim Durban -- Staging the road: walking, talking, footing / Robert Stagg -- The road to Damascus and the road to hell in Philip Massinger's The Renegado: Islamic England and the Pauline crossroads / Paul Frazer -- How Margaret Cavendish mapped a blazing world -- 'The king's highway': reading England's road in The Pilgrim's Progress, Part I / Martha Lynn Russell

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