This study addresses the overarching question of how cultural or political attachments are actively mediated through space (physical or dramatic) and how the complexities of geo-spatial identity affect representations of geography and landscape in early modern English drama. Drawing on hybrid sixteenth-century geographic printed texts to show the diversity of voices involved in their production and transmission, the argument reveals the dialogic nature of geographic discourse and dramatic interaction in early modern Europe. The geoparsing technique in computer science is used to assign spatial coordinates to in-text geographic references, but the multiple-recognition practices of geographic referencing hardly clarify the sense of place or the integration of geographic locations into dramatic action. In order to explain the transition from early modern fictionalized geographic narratives to drama, this study suggests the Moebius strip mathematical symbol to visualize the distorted symmetry and paradox involved in theatrical performance as compared to discourses of physical or imaginary spaces.
