Imperial Ventures
Maritime Drama and the Invention of Risk
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
- Date of Publication 18 February 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781512826999
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 694 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 b/w illus. 688
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Links early modern English drama and empire studies, exploring how staged scenes of maritime peril created a new form of economic uncertainty
Imperial Ventures links early modern English drama and empire studies, exploring how staged scenes of maritime peril created a new form of economic uncertainty around the turn of the seventeenth century, amid London?s explosion in commercial colonialism.
While the hazards of global maritime trade became increasingly apparent during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the word ?risk? did not enter English usage until around 1660. The prevailing scholarly narrative has linked uncertainty to concepts such as ?chance,? ?accident,? and ?providence,? but this book reveals that these fragmentary concepts were reordered into an economic abstraction, and that the theater was a key site for that process. Playwrights reached for ways to represent this new uncertainty, and audiences watched perilous voyages set in colonial contexts and dramatized in increasingly typical forms. Imperial Ventures is organized by these forms, with five chapters examining scenes of shipwreck, pirates, enslavement, colonial subjection, and perilous news across a wide range of early modern plays.
Benjamin VanWagoner shows how maritime drama connected English venturing to economic vulnerability in increasingly systematic ways, helping to develop the economic logic that would come to be codified as risk. In revealing this process, Imperial Ventures establishes the unique protocolonial status of early modern England?in the theater and at sea?and demonstrates how risk became a perverse instrument for justifying Anglophone imperialism.
"In the midst of twenty-first-century refugee crises, climate migrations, and supply-chain volatility, Benjamin VanWagoner?s study of the early modern history of maritime risk and theatrical performance is both timely and keenly illuminating. Offering incisive case studies of a corpus of maritime plays and venturing documents, this provocative book demonstrates the theater?s contributions to a ?cultural archaeology? of risk punctuated by shipwreck, pirates, enslavement, and subjection." More
