Introduction : Space on the Early Modern Stage
- Submitting institution
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 256706178
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.7227/CE.88.1.1
- Title of journal
- Cahiers Élisabéthains
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- First page
- 7
- Volume
- 88
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 0184-7678
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Space on the Early Modern Stage derives from a conference co-convened by Publicover and Chloe Preedy at the University of Leeds in 2012. Of the eleven articles that make up the special edition, seven are expanded versions of papers given at the conference. Publicover and Preedy wrote their contributions to the collection after the conference to ensure that they responded to the issues it raised; they then commissioned two additional chapters to complete the collection. After the special edition was accepted by Cahiers Élisabéthains, the editors worked closely with their authors—a group comprising experienced scholars, ECRs, PhD students and theatre professionals—to develop their contributions, going through multiple drafts with each author and undertaking editorial work to ensure cohesion across the collection. They then co-wrote a 5000-word introduction outlining existing research on how early modern plays create space/geography and on the spaces of the early modern theatres themselves; the introduction also provides a summary of the collection’s contents and a sense of where it intervenes in and develops existing scholarship—namely, by bringing into dialogue, for the first time, work on the geographical spaces presented through dramatic performance, the spaces within theatres, and the locations of the theatres within London. Publicover’s c.7000-word chapter explores the effects of clowning on the geography of plays set in the Mediterranean world. This developed research he had undertaken towards the monograph Dramatic Geography, published two years later by Oxford University Press; and the whole special edition (including its introduction) was linked to that project’s exploration of the relationship between geographical space and theatrical space.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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