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At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean

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Availability:In StockContributor:Steve Mentz, Ewan Fernie (Editor), Simon Palfrey (Editor)Series:Shakespeare Now!Publish date:2009-12-10Pages:136
Language:EnglishPublisher:ContinuumISBN-13:9781847064936ISBN-10:1847064930UPC:9781847064936Book Category:Literary Criticism, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Shakespeare, TheaterBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCNY54WBCY

We need a poetic history of the ocean, and Shakespeare can help us find one. There's more real salt in the plays than we might expect. Shakespeare's dramatic ocean spans the God-sea of the ancient world and the immense blue vistas that early modern mariners navigated. Throughout his career, from the opening shipwrecks of The Comedy of Errors through The Tempest, Shakespeare's plays figure the ocean as shocking physical reality and mind-twisting symbol of change and instability. To fathom Shakespeare's ocean - to go down to its bottom - this book's chapters focus on different things that humans do with and in and near the sea: fathoming, keeping watch, swimming, beachcombing, fishing, and drowning.
Mentz also sets Shakespeare's sea-poetry against modern literary sea-scapes, including the vast Pacific of Moby-Dick, the rocky coast of Charles Olson's Maximus Poems, and the lyrical waters of the postcolonial Caribbean. Uncovering the depths of Shakespeare's maritime world, this book draws out the centrality of the sea in our literary culture.

Language:EnglishPublisher:ContinuumISBN-13:9781847064936ISBN-10:1847064930UPC:9781847064936Book Category:Literary Criticism, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Shakespeare, TheaterBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCNY54WBCY
Steve Mentz is Associate Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City, USA, where he teaches Shakespeare and Renaissance literature. He is author of Romance for Sale in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2006) and co-editor of Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (Michigan, 2004). His maritime research has been supported by the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John Carter Brown Library, Mystic Seaport, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Maritime Museum in London.
Publisher: Continuum

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