This scholarly but accessible book offers fresh readings of canonical plays including Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Duchess of Malfi, while also intervening in recent critical debates concerning the work and the history of tragedy and reflecting on what it means to read these plays in a time of environmental crisis.
This scholarly but accessible book offers fresh readings of canonical plays including Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Duchess of Malfi, while also intervening in recent critical debates concerning the work and the history of tragedy and reflecting on what it means to read these plays in a time of environmental crisis.
Laurence Publicover is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol, where he works on English Renaissance literature and on human-ocean relations in the early modern period and beyond. He is the author of Dramatic Geography: Romance, Cultural Encounter, and Intertheatricality in Early Modern Mediterranean Drama (Oxford University Press, 2017) and co-editor, with Susann Liebich, of Shipboard Literary Cultures: Reading, Writing, and Performing at Sea (Palgrave, 2021). Alongside Jimmy Packham, he is writing a human and literary history of the seabed to be published by University of Chicago Press.
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Introduction: Horatio's Warnings 1: The Spanish Tragedy and the English Tradition 2: Fathoming King Lear 3: The Horror of Macbeth 4: Peering into the Beyond: The Duchess of Malfi 5: Middleton's Deep Conclusion: Tragedy, History, and Ecological Thought
Introduction: Horatio's Warnings 1: The Spanish Tragedy and the English Tradition 2: Fathoming King Lear 3: The Horror of Macbeth 4: Peering into the Beyond: The Duchess of Malfi 5: Middleton's Deep Conclusion: Tragedy, History, and Ecological Thought
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