Reading the River in Shakespeare’s Britain
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- ISBN 9781399534482
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 2024
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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In Shakespeare's Britain rivers were not only a crucial form of travel and important natural resources which sustained communities and provided employment but were also sites to which myths and memories accrued and which could be used to figure religious ideas of cleansing and the waters of life. Pageants were performed on them, legends grew up about their names and led to plays and poems being written about personified river gods and goddesses, and stories were told of historic battles which had been fought on their banks. These essays explore the cultural and literary geography of rivers in the early modern period and the ways in which they shaped the lives and identities of those who lived near them. By charting changes (both manmade and natural) to the way in which rivers ebb and flow the book also reminds us of the urgency of the climate crisis.
Bill Angus is pursuing a rich and varied life in New Zealand. Previous publications include Reading the River in Shakespeare’s Britain (2024) and Reading the Road, from Shakespeare’s Crossways to Bunyan’s Highways (2019) both co-edited with Lisa Hopkins and published by Edinburgh University Press. His latest book, Divorcing Jesus (2025) maps a moral and intellectual path from the ruins of Christianity towards the ideal of Atheism. Lisa Hopkins is Professor Emerita of English at Sheffield Hallam University and co-editor of Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association. Previous publications include Reading the River in Shakespeare’s Britain (2024) and Reading the Road, from Shakespeare’s Crossways to Bunyan’s Highways (2019) both co-edited with Bill Angus and published by Edinburgh University Press.
