Steve Mentz is Associate Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City, USA, where he teaches Shakespeare and Renaissance literature. He is author of Romance for Sale in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2006) and co-editor of Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (Michigan, 2004). His maritime research has been supported by the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John Carter Brown Library, Mystic Seaport, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Maritime Museum in London.

• 1. Fathoming Shakespeare's Ocean: The Tempest and King Lear; 2. Shipwreck with Spectators: Othello; Interlude: Sunken Treasure; 3. Swimming: The Comedy of Errors; 4. Beachcombing: Twelfth Night; Interlude: What the Pirates say to Hamlet; 5. Fishing: Pericles; 6. Brave New View: The Merchant of Venice and Two Noble Kinsmen; 7. Drowning: Timon of Athens; Concluding Interlude: Toward a Blue Ecology; Further Reading; Index.

"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

Steve Mentz is Associate Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City, USA, where he teaches Shakespeare and Renaissance literature. He is author of Romance for Sale in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2006) and co-editor of Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (Michigan, 2004). His maritime research has been supported by the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John Carter Brown Library, Mystic Seaport, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Maritime Museum in London.

• 1. Fathoming Shakespeare's Ocean: The Tempest and King Lear; 2. Shipwreck with Spectators: Othello; Interlude: Sunken Treasure; 3. Swimming: The Comedy of Errors; 4. Beachcombing: Twelfth Night; Interlude: What the Pirates say to Hamlet; 5. Fishing: Pericles; 6. Brave New View: The Merchant of Venice and Two Noble Kinsmen; 7. Drowning: Timon of Athens; Concluding Interlude: Toward a Blue Ecology; Further Reading; Index.

"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

Steve Mentz is Associate Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City, USA, where he teaches Shakespeare and Renaissance literature. He is author of Romance for Sale in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2006) and co-editor of Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (Michigan, 2004). His maritime research has been supported by the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John Carter Brown Library, Mystic Seaport, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Maritime Museum in London.

• 1. Fathoming Shakespeare's Ocean: The Tempest and King Lear; 2. Shipwreck with Spectators: Othello; Interlude: Sunken Treasure; 3. Swimming: The Comedy of Errors; 4. Beachcombing: Twelfth Night; Interlude: What the Pirates say to Hamlet; 5. Fishing: Pericles; 6. Brave New View: The Merchant of Venice and Two Noble Kinsmen; 7. Drowning: Timon of Athens; Concluding Interlude: Toward a Blue Ecology; Further Reading; Index.

"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