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Zusatztext Reviewed in Routledge ABES Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Vorwort Fascinating study revealing Shakespeare's career-long engagement with the sea and his frequent use of maritime imagery. Zusammenfassung A study revealing Shakespeare's career-long engagement with the sea and his frequent use of maritime imagery. It sets Shakespeare's sea-poetry against modern literary seascapes, including the vast Pacific of "Moby-Dick", the rocky coast of Charles Olson's "Maximus Poems", and the lyrical waters of the postcolonial "Caribbean". Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Fathoming: The Tempest and King Lear 2. Keeping Watch: Othello Interlude: Sunken Treasure 3. Swimming: The Comedy of Errors 4. Beachcombing: Twelfth Night Interlude: What the Pirates Said to Hamlet 5. Fishing: Pericles 6. Drowning: Timon of Athens Concluding Interlude: Toward a Blue Cultural Studies Reading the New Thalassology Index ...
