Theatrum vitae humanae: Shakespeare’s Cosmographic Imagination

The article argues that maps and woodcuts in the numerous cosmographic works published in the course of the sixteenth century were an important source of inspiration for Shakespeare. The Globe playhouse, erected in Southwark in 1599, was the equivalent of a theatrum mundi where ‘men and women [were]...

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Main Author: François Laroque
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2023-07-01
Series:Journal of Early Modern Studies
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-jems/article/view/14396
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