Table of Contents
Illustrations xi
Acknowledgements xii
Introduction 1
Voyage drama 7
Lost plays 10
Vicarious travel 11
The scholarship of sightseeing 13
1 The Wings of Active Thought 19
Instructions for travel, or ars apodemica 20
Mind-travelling 25
The imagination and ideal presence 34
Travelling at the theatre 38
2 Marlovian Models of Voyage Drama 51
The 'will to travel' in Marlovian drama 52
The playwright's travels in 'map and card' 57
Acting on knowledge: Faustus's journey 'to prove cosmography' 63
Fortunatus and the wishing hat 71
3 Morals, Manners, and Imagination: Jonson and Heywood 83
Jonson's moral imperative 84
Heywood and travel as a fantasy of escape 96
Staging travel in Heywood's plays 107
4 Therapeutic Travel in Richard Brome's The Antipodes 123
Jonsonian psychology and drama 124
Disdain for the familiar 126
Peregrine as mind-travelling reader 129
The stars change, the mind remains the same 132
'Mandeville madness' 138
5 Davenant, Saint-Évremond, Dryden, and the Ocular Dimension of Travel 145
Davenant and the effects of perspectival scenery on mind-travelling 147
Sightseeing and morality in Saint Évremond's Sir Politick Would-be 164
Dryden's aesthetics and the theatre-as-prospective-glass 170
6 Old Genres, New Worlds: Behn Domesticates the Exotic 182
Virginian customs and culture in The Widow Ranter 184
Women, marriage, and slaves 193
A domestic tragedy in the New World 203
Conclusion 210
Bibliography 214
Index 230
