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""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."" (Jane Hwang Degenhardt, author of Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage) ""Imperial Ventures is a path-breaking study of early modern postcolonialism, examining how risk animated both economic discourses and dramatic representations of peril at sea. The strength of this book lies in its fresh readings of familiar plays as they dramatize the risks and challenges of the new maritime economy buttressing England's imperialist drives."" (Jyotsna G. Singh, author of Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory) ""This excellent and erudite book reconsiders early modern maritime drama in terms of imperialism and colonial expansion, brilliantly bringing together new developments in critical thinking about race, slavery, economic risk, and related areas. Anyone interested in oceanic cultures, early modern globalization, ecological imperialism, or the blue humanities should read this book!"" (Steve Mentz, author of Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719)

""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."" * Jane Hwang Degenhardt, author of Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage * ""Imperial Ventures is a path-breaking study of early modern postcolonialism, examining how risk animated both economic discourses and dramatic representations of peril at sea. The strength of this book lies in its fresh readings of familiar plays as they dramatize the risks and challenges of the new maritime economy buttressing England’s imperialist drives."" * Jyotsna G. Singh, author of Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory * ""This excellent and erudite book reconsiders early modern maritime drama in terms of imperialism and colonial expansion, brilliantly bringing together new developments in critical thinking about race, slavery, economic risk, and related areas. Anyone interested in oceanic cultures, early modern globalization, ecological imperialism, or the blue humanities should read this book!"" * Steve Mentz, author of Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719 *

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Benjamin VanWagoner lives in New York.

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