{"product_id":"9780813941240-shakespeares-ocean","title":"Shakespeare's Ocean","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn Ecocritical Exploration\u003cbr\u003eStudy of the sea - both in terms of human interaction with it and its literary representation - has been largely ignored by ecocritics. In \u003cem\u003eShakespeare's Ocean,\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003eStudy of the sea-both in terms of human interaction with it and its literary representation-has been largely ignored by ecocritics. In \u003ci\u003eShakespeare’s Ocean,\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShakespeare 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Comedy of Errors\u003c\/i\u003e to the valedictory \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest,\u003c\/i\u003e Brayton demonstrates Shakespeare’s remarkable conceptual mastery of the early modern maritime world and reveals a powerful benthic imagination at work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55801537626486,"sku":"9780813941240","price":32.17,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38241513.jpg?v=1765974409","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780813941240-shakespeares-ocean","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}