At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean
Title | At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Mentz |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 136 |
Release | 2009-12-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1847064930 |
Fascinating study revealing Shakespeare's career-long engagement with the sea and his frequent use of maritime imagery.
Shakespeare's Ocean
Title | Shakespeare's Ocean PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Brayton |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | 294 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0813932262 |
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. The world in which he imagined his plays was newly understood to be a sphere covered with water. In vital readings of works ranging from The Comedy of Errors to the valedictory The Tempest, Brayton demonstrates Shakespeare’s remarkable conceptual mastery of the early modern maritime world and reveals a powerful benthic imagination at work.
Shakespeare's Ocean
Title | Shakespeare's Ocean PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Brayton |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 2012-04-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0813932270 |
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. The world in which he imagined his plays was newly understood to be a sphere covered with water. In vital readings of works ranging from The Comedy of Errors to the valedictory The Tempest, Brayton demonstrates Shakespeare’s remarkable conceptual mastery of the early modern maritime world and reveals a powerful benthic imagination at work.
Shakespeare's Sea Terms Explained
Title | Shakespeare's Sea Terms Explained PDF eBook |
Author | W. B. Whall |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 122 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Naval art and science in literature |
ISBN |
Ecocritical Shakespeare
Title | Ecocritical Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Lynne Bruckner |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2016-04-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317146441 |
Can reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare contribute to the health of the planet? To what degree are Shakespeare's plays anthropocentric or ecocentric? What is the connection between the literary and the real when it comes to ecological conduct? This collection, engages with these pressing questions surrounding ecocritical Shakespeare, in order to provide a better understanding of where and how ecocritical readings should be situated. The volume combines multiple critical perspectives, juxtaposing historicism and presentism, as well as considering ecofeminism and pedagogy; and addresses such topics as early modern flora and fauna, and the neglected areas of early modern marine ecology and oceanography. Concluding with an assessment of the challenges-and necessities-of teaching Shakespeare ecocritically, Ecocritical Shakespeare not only broadens the implications of ecocriticism in early modern studies, but represents an important contribution to this growing field.
Shakespeare and the Mediterranean 2: The Tempest
Title | Shakespeare and the Mediterranean 2: The Tempest PDF eBook |
Author | Fabio Ciambella |
Publisher | Skenè. Texts and Studies |
Total Pages | 202 |
Release | 2023-08-23 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 8846767365 |
Is Shakespeare’s The Tempest a Mediterranean play? This volume explores the relationship between The Tempest and the Mediterranean Sea and analyses it from different perspectives. Some essays focus on close readings of the text in order to explore the importance of the Mediterranean Sea for the genesis of the play and the narration of the past and present events in which the Shakespearean characters participate. Other chapters investigate the relationship between the Shakespearean play, its resources from the Mediterranean Graeco-Latin past and its afterlives in twentieth-century poems looking at the Mediterranean dimension of the play. Moreover, influences on and of The Tempest are investigated, looking at how Italian Renaissance music may have influenced some choices concerning Ariel’s song(s) and how The Tempest has shaped the production of twentieth-century Italian directors. Finally, other chapters try to reaffirm the centrality of the Mediterranean Sea in The Tempest, bringing to the fore new textual evidence in support of the Mediterraneity of the play, by adopting and/or criticising recent approaches.
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Hirschfeld |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 592 |
Release | 2018-09-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191043451 |
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises. It engages with perennial, yet still urgent questions raised by the comedies and looks at them from a range of new perspectives that represent the most recent methodological approaches to Shakespeare, genre, and early modern drama. Several chapters take up firmly established topics of inquiry such Shakespeare's source materials, gender and sexuality, hetero- and homoerotic desire, race, and religion, and they reformulate these topics in the materialist, formalist, phenomenological, or revisionist terms of current scholarship and critical debate. Others explore subjects that have only relatively recently become pressing concerns for sustained scholarly interrogation, such as ecology, cross-species interaction, and humoral theory. Some contributions, informed by increasingly sophisticated approaches to the material conditions and embodied experience of theatrical practice, speak to a resurgence of interest in performance, from Shakespeare's period through the first decades of the twenty-first century. Others still investigate distinct sets of plays from unexpected and often polemical angles, noting connections between the comedies under inventive, unpredicted banners such as the theology of adultery, early modern pedagogy, global exploration, or monarchical rule. The Handbook situates these approaches against the long history of criticism and provides a valuable overview of the most up-to-date work in the field.