At the bottom of Shakespeare's ocean / / Steve Mentz
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| Autore: |
Mentz Steve
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| Titolo: |
At the bottom of Shakespeare's ocean / / Steve Mentz
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (135 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 822.33 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sea in literature |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | At the bottom of Shakespeare's ocean |
| ISBN: | 1-4725-5483-3 |
| 1-282-87360-1 | |
| 9786612873607 | |
| 1-4411-2592-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785372803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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