Shakespeare's Ocean: An Ecocritical Exploration

by Dan Brayton

Book Overview

Study of the sea--both in terms of human interaction with it and its literary representation--has been largely ignored by ecocritics. In Shakespeare's Ocean, Dan Brayton foregrounds the maritime dimension of a writer whose plays and poems have had an enormous impact on literary notions of nature and, in so doing, plots a new course for ecocritical scholarship.

Shakespeare lived during a time of great expansion of geographical knowledge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813941245
• ISBN13: 9780813941240
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher