Reading the Road, from Shakespeare’s Crossways to Bunyan’s Highways

Explores how cultural conceptions of mobility and the road contribute to identity and culture in early modern Britain Opens new windows on early modern culture, subjectivity and perceptions around the experience of the road and how that shapes the idea of the road itselfOffers insight into the ways both the bare boards of the stage and prose narratives were used to imagine road journeys and the intersections between public and private spaceEnhances historical understanding of the literal place o