Download or read book The Absence of America on the Early Modern Stage written by Gavin R. Hollis and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: invoked by a play and the world outside that play. America emerges most often at these points of intersection between stage and audience, between playing-company and playgoer: in plays which feature Christian Europeans disguising themselves as Indians, in plays which are set in London or on unnamed, unknown islands, and even in plays whose plots seem to have little to do with America.