Border Crossings in Renaissance Drama

Investigates how distant peoples and places, from Ireland to the West Indies, from East to West, are constructed for the English stage. We will read Marlowe's Tamburlaine , Fletcher's Island Princess , Heywood's Fair Maid of the West , the anonymous Stukeley play, Shakespeare's Othello , and Daborne's A Christian Turned Turk to observe what dangers and freedoms these plays ascribe to specific geographies.