At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean

AvSteve Mentz

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PDF, Engelska, 2009

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-10-10
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:136
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781441125927
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation
Serie:Shakespeare Now!

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Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St John's University, USA. He is the author of seven books, most recently Sailing without Ahab (2024) and An Introduction to the Blue Humanities (2023), as well as multiple edited volumes, chapters, and journal articles. His research has been supported by the Rachel Carson Center, 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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"Steve Mentz's At the Bottom of Shakespeare'sOcean - part of this wonderful new series - launches 'blue cultural studies' with an impressive crew. Setting familiar plays such as The Tempest and Twelfth Night in dialogue with Glissant, Olson, Brathwaite, and Melville, he produces a flood of fresh Shakespearean readings that are always wise and salty." -Professor Peter Hulme, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex, UK

Innehållsförteckning

1. Fathoming: The Tempest and King Lear2. Keeping Watch: OthelloInterlude: Sunken Treasure3. Swimming: The Comedy of Errors4. Beachcombing: Twelfth NightInterlude: What the Pirates Said to Hamlet5. Fishing: Pericles6. Drowning: Timon of AthensConcluding Interlude: Toward a Blue Cultural StudiesReading the New ThalassologyIndex