Description: Fascinating study revealing Shakespeare's career-long engagement with the sea and his frequent use of maritime imagery.
Brief description: Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St John's University, USA. He is the author of seven books, most recently Sailing without Ahab (2024) and An Introduction to the Blue Humanities (2023), as well as multiple edited volumes, chapters, and journal articles. His research has been supported by the Rachel Carson Center, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John Carter Brown Library, Mystic Seaport, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Maritime Museum in London.
Review Quotes: "Steve Mentz's At the Bottom of Shakespeare'sOcean - part of this wonderful new series - launches 'blue cultural studies' with an impressive crew. Setting familiar plays such as The Tempest and Twelfth Night in dialogue with Glissant, Olson, Brathwaite, and Melville, he produces a flood of fresh Shakespearean readings that are always wise and salty." -Professor Peter Hulme, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex, UK