Laurence Publicover (Senior Lecturer in Senior Lecturer in English

Gebundenes Buch

Fathoming the Deep in English Renaissance Tragedy

Horror, Mystery, and the Oceanic Sublime

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 165mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780198907084
• ISBN-10: 0198907087
• Artikelnr.: 70975130