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This volume brings together three little-known plays that convey vividly the fascination in early seventeenth-century England with travel and exploration. In their different ways they are all dramas of wandering and adventure and they explore the great diversity of responses in the period to the lures of tourism and colonial expansion and to challenges posed by the encounter with exotic places and peoples.

Anthony Parr is Professor of English at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

List of Illustrations

vi

General Editors' Preface

vii

Acknowledgements

ix

Abbreviations and References

x

Introduction

1

(1)

Learning at home

1

(6)

Brothers and others: The Travels of the Three English Brothers

7

(13)

Piracy and settlement: The Sea Voyage

20

(12)

Parenthesis: free of the company of venturers

32

(2)

Nowhere is a place: The Antipodes

34

(16)

A note on the texts

50

(277)

THE PLAYS

The Travels of the Three English Brothers

55

(80)

The Sea Voyage

135

(82)

The Antipodes

217

(110)

Index to the Commentary

327

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Three Renaissance Travel Plays

Three Renaissance Travel Plays

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