At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean by Mentz, Steve

At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781847064929)

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Format: Hardcover
$130.00
$130.00
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At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean by Mentz, Steve

At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean

$130.00
At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean by Mentz, Steve

At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean

$130.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 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.

Author: Steve Mentz
ISBN-10: 1847064922
ISBN-13: 9781847064929
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 12/10/2009
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.60d
By Steve Mentz
By Steve Mentz
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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.

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