Shakespeare’s Ocean An Ecocritical Exploration
Shakespeare’s Ocean: An Ecocritical Exploration by Dan Brayton, published by University of Virginia Press in 2018, is an illustrated edition comprising 280 pages. This book examines the often-overlooked relationship between humanity and the sea, as well as its representation in literature, particularly in the works of William Shakespeare. Brayton highlights the maritime aspects of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, emphasizing their significant influence on literary interpretations of nature.
Readers will find a detailed analysis of Shakespeare’s engagement with the maritime world, exploring how his writings reflect the expanding geographical knowledge of his time. Through critical readings of various works, including The Comedy of Errors and The Tempest, Brayton reveals Shakespeare’s deep understanding of the early modern maritime environment and his imaginative exploration of nature. This edition invites readers to reconsider the role of the sea in literary criticism and the broader implications of ecological thought in relation to Shakespeare’s oeuvre.
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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.
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