{"product_id":"9780813932279","title":"Shakespeare's Ocean: An Ecocritical Exploration","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128426905840,"sku":"9780813932279","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780813932279_p0.jpg?v=1763743821","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780813932279","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}