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

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