We need a poetic history of the ocean, and Shakespeare can help us find one. Thereâs more real salt in the plays than we might expect. Shakespeareâs dramatic ocean spans the God-sea of the ancient world and the immense...
Steve Mentz provides a comprehensive historicist and formalist account of prose romance, the most important genre of Elizabethan fiction. He explores how authors and publishers of prose fiction in late sixteenth-century England produced books that combine...