Fathoming the Deep in English Renaissance Tragedy: Horror, Mystery, and the Oceanic Sublime - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198907084ISBN-10:198907087UPC:9780198907084Book Category:Literary Criticism, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Shakespeare, Renaissance, TheaterSize:9.44 x 6.49 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SCQM66VXGV
Fathoming the Deep in English Renaissance Tragedy: Horror, Mystery, and the Oceanic Sublime
This book demonstrates how a group of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries stage the fear and exhilaration generated by encounters with the unknown and the extraordinary. Arguing that the maritime art of fathoming--that is, dropping a lead and line into water to measure its depth--operates as a master-image for these plays, it illustrates how they create sublime horror through...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198907084ISBN-10:198907087UPC:9780198907084Book Category:Literary Criticism, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Shakespeare, Renaissance, TheaterSize:9.44 x 6.49 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SCQM66VXGV
Laurence Publicover, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Bristol Laurence Publicover is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol, where he works on English Renaissance literature and on human-ocean relations in the early modern period and beyond. He is the author of Dramatic Geography: Romance, Cultural Encounter, and Intertheatricality in Early Modern Mediterranean Drama...
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