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Mentz Steve |
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At the bottom of Shakespeare's ocean / / Steve Mentz |
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London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2009 |
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1-4725-5483-3 |
1-282-87360-1 |
9786612873607 |
1-4411-2592-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (135 p.) |
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Collana |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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