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- Title
Temporal Instability, Wildernesses, and the Otherworld in Early Modern Drama.
- Authors
Rendall, Edward B. M.
- Abstract
This article shows how temporal disorder diffuses into the wildernesses within early modern English drama. Those areas beyond the walls of cities and castles in—among other plays—The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth thus flit free from the temporal rules that construct a play's quotidian world, and the conspicuous partitions that enclose an otherworld in medieval iconography no longer seem clear within them. I argue that these spaces enact an unfamiliar and chaotic 'otherworld' within quotidian space, and characters' ventures into these outer regions at certain points resemble movements into an 'afterlife'. Journeys into a wilderness, then, parallel a shift from one temporal sphere to another, and characters encounter a post-death state of being within the play's present.
- Subjects
ENGLISH drama; ECOCRITICISM; SUPERNATURAL; NARRATIVES; PURGATORIAL societies
- Publication
Literature (2410-9789), 2022, Vol 2, Issue 4, p329
- ISSN
2410-9789
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/literature2040027