Reading the road, from Shakespeare's crossways to Bunyan's highways /edited by Lisa Hopkins and Bill Angus
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (vi, 264 pages) : illustrations (black and white), map
The low road and the high road: Macbeth and the way to Scotland / Uncolting Falstaff: the oats complex and energy crisis in 1 Henry IV / The night, the crossroads and the stake: Shakespeare and the outcast dead / Gender, vagrancy, and the culture of the early modern road in As You Like It / Traversing monstrosity: perilous women and powerful men upon Shakespeare's roads / Not so tedious ways to think about the locations of the early playhouses / Wandering fools and foolish vagrants: folly on the road in early modern English culture / 'Fallen am I in dark uneven way': wandering from the road in early modern folklore and drama / 'I must abroad or perish!': the meta-theatre of the road in Brome's A Jovial Crew / Staging the road: walking, talking, footing / The road to Damascus and the road to hell in Philip Massinger's The Renegado: Islamic England and the Pauline crossroads / How Margaret Cavendish mapped a blazing world -- 'The king's highway': reading England's road in The Pilgrim's Progress, Part I / Lisa Hopkins -- Todd Andrew Borlik -- Bill Angus -- Karalyn Dokurno -- Sharon Emmerichs -- Laurie Johnson -- Alice Equestri -- Jennifer Allport Reid -- Kim Durban -- Robert Stagg -- Paul Frazer -- Martha Lynn Russell
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