At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean

by Steve Mentz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847064930
• ISBN13: 9781847064936
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.7"