{"product_id":"fathoming-the-deep-in-english-renaissance-tragedy-horror-mystery-and-the-oceanic-sublime-9780198907084","title":"Fathoming the Deep in English Renaissance Tragedy: Horror, Mystery, and the Oceanic Sublime","description":"This book demonstrates how a group of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries stage the fear and exhilaration generated by encounters with the unknown and the extraordinary. Arguing that the maritime art of fathoming--that is, dropping a lead and line into water to measure its depth--operates as a master-image for these plays, it illustrates how they create sublime horror through intuitions of mysterious more-than-human agencies and of worlds beyond the visible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough tightly focused on a specific body of imagery, the book strikes up dialogue with a number of critical fields, including theories and histories of tragedy; ecocriticism and the environmental humanities; oceanic studies; and work on early modern ideas about the body, madness, and language. Countering a tendency within tragic theory to value the textual over the dramatic, it also demonstrates how the tragic effects to which it points are created through specific theatrical strategies, including the use of offstage space, intertheatricality, and the violation of dramatic conventions. Situating its arguments within recent criticism on these plays and on tragedy more generally, and pushing back against scholarship that regards the genre in Shakespeare's time as concerned more with pity than with fear, the book offers fresh and detailed readings of some of the most frequently studied plays in the English canon, including \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Duchess of Malfi\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Changeling\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laurence Publicover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.44h x 6.49w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198907084","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43273937256585,"sku":"9780198907084","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_274da0fe-e39f-4acf-90e4-771fb3107c04.jpg?v=1736842546","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/fathoming-the-deep-in-english-renaissance-tragedy-horror-mystery-and-the-oceanic-sublime-9780198907084","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}