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2 - Maps and Map Literacy

from Part I - Mapping Shakespeare’s World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Gavin Hollis
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Agas, RalphatlasBartlett, RichardBehaim, MartinBlundeville, ThomascartographyCecil, William, Lord BurghleyCunningham, WilliamDonne, JohnDrayton, MichaelEdward VIElizabeth IElyot, Sir ThomasFitzhebert, JohngeographygeometryGheeraerts, MarcusglobesGlobe (playhouse)Gower, GeorgeHenry VIIIHerrick, RobertHolbein, HansJames IKratzer, NicholasLee, RichardMappa Mundimap readingmapsmap sellingMarlowe, ChristopherMercator, GerardusMiddleton, ThomasNorden, JohnOrtelius, AbrahamPatten, WilliamPlatter, ThomasPortolansRastell, JohnRecord, RobertRoberts, LewesRogers, JohnRuttersSaxton, ChristopherSpeed, JohnVolpe, VincenzoWaghenaer, Lucas JanszoonWorsop, EdwardWright, Edward
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 18 - 24
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Barber, Peter. “Mapmaking in England, ca. 1470–1650.” The History of Cartography. Vol. 3: Cartography in the European Renaissance, Part II. Ed. Woodward, David. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2007. 1589–1669.Google Scholar
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Hollis, Gavin. “‘Give me the map there’: King Lear and Cartographic Literacy in Early Modern England.” The Portolan 68 (spring 2007): 8–25.Google Scholar
Howard, Jean E. “Shakespeare, Geography, and the Work of Genre on the Early Modern Stage.” Modern Language Quarterly 64.3 (2003): 299–322.Google Scholar
Klein, Bernhard. Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern England and Ireland. New York: Palgrave, 2001.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McRae, Andrew. God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500–1660. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.Google Scholar
Sanford, Rhonda Lemke. Maps and Memory in Early Modern England: A Sense of Place. New York: Palgrave, 2002.Google Scholar
Sullivan, Garrett A. The Drama of Landscape: Land, Property, and Social Relations on the Early Modern Stage. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998.Google Scholar

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