Publication Type
Book Review
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
3-2017
Abstract
Given the premium often placed on the ‘special relationship’ between Britain and the United States in today’s public discourse, it is hard to imagine a time when transatlantic affairs were deemed peripheral to London’s interests. And yet, as Gavin Hollis, Associate Professor at Hunter College, City University of New York, reminds us, in the decades surrounding the 1607 founding of Jamestown, the New World was only of ‘marginal’ interest to those living in the Old (10). From the opening of the first permanent playhouse in 1576 to the closure of the theatres in 1642, a mere three English plays are believed to have focused on the Americas, none of which have survived, and the fleeting references to the New World in extant dramatic works are rarely enthusiastic about colonial expansion.
Discipline
Theatre and Performance Studies
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Literary London Journal
Volume
14
Issue
1
First Page
68
Last Page
70
ISSN
1744-0807
ISBN
9780198734321
Publisher
Literary London Society
Citation
SOON, Emily.(2017). Review of: Gavin Hollis, The Absence of America: The London Stage, 1576-1642. Literary London Journal, 14(1), 68-70.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3374
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