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- Title
Sweet Swan of Avon: Rivers in Shakespeare.
- Authors
Bevington, David; Bevington, Stephen
- Abstract
River, stream, flood, fountain—the terms are often interchangeable. A brook is smaller, but it too is part of Shakespeare's imaginative world of streams and rivers. He names relatively few—Severn, Trent, Wye, Thames, Tiber, Saale, Elbe, Somme, Styx, Cydnus, Nile—but they are meaningful for him in ways that can focus the energies of the scenes in which they appear. They and many unnamed waterways are significant natural environments that provide strategic contexts for human actions. Rivers and streams in Shakespeare offer a continuous insight into character and dramatic situation in such a way as to become an integral feature of his great skill as poet and playwright.
- Subjects
RIVERS in literature; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; ENGLISH literature; ENGLISH drama; ENGLISH dramatists
- Publication
SEL: Studies in English Literature (Johns Hopkins), 2019, Vol 59, Issue 2, p329
- ISSN
0039-3657
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sel.2019.0015