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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785372803321

Autore

Mentz Steve

Titolo

At the bottom of Shakespeare's ocean / / Steve Mentz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2009

ISBN

1-4725-5483-3

1-282-87360-1

9786612873607

1-4411-2592-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (135 p.)

Collana

Shakespeare now!

Disciplina

822.33

Soggetti

Sea in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Fathoming: The Tempest and King Lear; 2. Keeping Watch: Othello; 3. Swimming: The Comedy of Errors; 4. Beachcombing: Twelfth Night; 5. Fishing: Pericles; 6. Drowning: Timon of Athens; Warm Water Epilogue; Reading the New Thalassology; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 human