Liminality,Mobility,and Identity in Shakespeare’s Late Romances

In the post-Columbian era from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,modernity emerges as travel becomes an increasingly common activity.Most of Shakespeare’s late romances involve magical elements and traditional moral concepts.Most of the studies focus on the divinity,redemption,moral influence,narrative structure and moral functions,which belongs to a mode of established discussions.This paper argues that in early modern England as the key period of social transformation,Shakespeare’s romances works through the liminality of the space,both presenting growing rituals on the fringe of the noble class,showing character’s political concern in spatial change.The outline of an early modern British cultural landscape arises from it.For Shakespeare,the characters’travels are inevitable,and there is a sense of national spirituality in it.Shakespeare’s romances take those travelling characters as the carrier through the growing rituals in the spatial change.As the solid construction of the identity of the characters is presented,and the reliability of the social change can be interpreted.This paper aims to explore the charm of Shakespeare’s romance and the manifestation of early modern culture of mobility.