Shakespeare and the Sea
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Shakespeare and the Sea
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“There are some who are oceanic in effect,” pronounced Victor Hugo with regard to Shakespeare. “As for the sea, it thunders in passage after Shakespearian passage, and is indeed Shakespeare’s main poetic symbol, its roughness especially being used over and over again to impress on us a sense of man’s turbulent existence,” wrote the critic G. Wilson Knight. In the first of a series of five new Blue Humanities podcasts, Jonathan Bate talks to Professor Peter Womack about his new book Shakespeare, The Sea and the Stage (Edinburgh University Press), a lively study that places Shakespeare in the context of his own maritime moment, but also shows how his language of sea and ocean roars through the ages.
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New episodes featuring leading scholars will be uploaded regularly.
This episode was edited by Dave Waugh at Scrubcast.
Music: from Claude Debussy, La Mer (rights-free recording).