Peter Womack is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Drama at the University of East Anglia, where he taught courses on and around Shakespeare for thirty years. His books include Dialogue (2011), English Renaissance Drama (2006) and Ben Jonson (1986).

• AcknowledgmentsSeries Editors’ PrefaceIntroduction1. The Sea of Genius2. The Royal Sea3. The Aristocratic Sea4. The Mercantile Sea5. The Rhetorical Sea6. The Narrative Sea7. The Invisible SeaAfterwordBibliographyIndex

Shakespeare, the Sea and the Stage justifies its publication in the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture series by being full of aperçus about both the plays and the society which produced them. Lyrical and suggestive, it is full and rich like the sea itself.

Peter Womack is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Drama at the University of East Anglia, where he taught courses on and around Shakespeare for thirty years. His books include Dialogue (2011), English Renaissance Drama (2006) and Ben Jonson (1986).

• AcknowledgmentsSeries Editors’ PrefaceIntroduction1. The Sea of Genius2. The Royal Sea3. The Aristocratic Sea4. The Mercantile Sea5. The Rhetorical Sea6. The Narrative Sea7. The Invisible SeaAfterwordBibliographyIndex

Shakespeare, the Sea and the Stage justifies its publication in the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture series by being full of aperçus about both the plays and the society which produced them. Lyrical and suggestive, it is full and rich like the sea itself.

Peter Womack is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Drama at the University of East Anglia, where he taught courses on and around Shakespeare for thirty years. His books include Dialogue (2011), English Renaissance Drama (2006) and Ben Jonson (1986).

• AcknowledgmentsSeries Editors’ PrefaceIntroduction1. The Sea of Genius2. The Royal Sea3. The Aristocratic Sea4. The Mercantile Sea5. The Rhetorical Sea6. The Narrative Sea7. The Invisible SeaAfterwordBibliographyIndex

Shakespeare, the Sea and the Stage justifies its publication in the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture series by being full of aperçus about both the plays and the society which produced them. Lyrical and suggestive, it is full and rich like the sea itself.