'Here's a marvelous convenient place for our rehearsal': Shakespeare in Australian Space

Ideas about place have occupied thinkers from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including poets, geographers, philosophers and cultural theorists. In his introduction to Place and Experience, Jeff Malpas cites considerations of the relation of persons to space from writers as varied as Wordsworth, Proust, Bachelard, Deleuze and Guattari, Heidegger, and Mark Johnson. Such writers have established the fundamental importance of place to our sense of being in the world, but have also shown that the relationship between place and identity is highly complex. Both 'place' and 'space' are ambiguous.