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- Title
Shakespeare, as the Waters Rise.
- Authors
Campana, Joseph
- Abstract
In "Shakespeare, as the Waters Rise," I reflect on teaching a course on Shakespeare's storm- and shipwrecked-filled dramas in the anticipation, experience, and aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which devastated the Texas Gulf Coast and, particularly, the city of Houston. How do we experience disaster and what happens when we watch it unfold around us from a position of safety? What do we reach for when we fear we will drown? Shelter, succor, and perhaps also Shakespeare, it turns out, as the essay examines the resources of the past for the disasters of the present.
- Subjects
ENGLISH drama; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; STORMS in literature; SHIPWRECKS in literature; HURRICANE Harvey, 2017
- Publication
SEL: Studies in English Literature (Johns Hopkins), 2019, Vol 59, Issue 2, p415
- ISSN
0039-3657
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sel.2019.0020