Contents

pp 5-6

List of Illustrations

pp 7-8

Acknowledgments and Dedication

pp 9-10

Introduction : Watery Thinking: Minds and Water In and Beyond the Early Modern Period

pp 11-28

Part 1 - Drowning on Stage

pp 29-30

1 - Muddying the Waters: Thinking Thinking in Watery Context with Hamlet

pp 31-46

2 - Ophelia with Spectator: Hamlet and Watery Cognition

pp 47-64

3 - Monsters of the Deep: What Watery Dreams May Come in Shakespeare’s Richard III

pp 65-90

4 - Stink or Swim: Knee-deep in Marlowe’s Edward II

pp 91-112

Part 2 - Fluid Metaphors

pp 113-114

5 - Richard of Gloucester’s Elemental Thinking : Water and Sovereignty in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy

pp 115-136

6 - The Sea of the Mind in Early Modern Poetry

pp 137-156

7 - Tears, Rain, and Shame : King Lear, Masculine Vulnerability, and Environmental Crisis

pp 157-176

Part 3 - Forms of Water

pp 177-178

8 - Flake: The Shapes of Snow in Early Modern Culture

pp 179-198

9 - “No darkness but Ignorance” : Thinking Foggily in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama

pp 199-216

10 - Speaking Water and Seeping Memory in Michael Drayton’s Poly-Olbion

pp 217-234

Part 4 - Submersive Tendencies

pp 235-236

11 - Estuarial Rage and Resistance in Pulter’s “The Complaint of Thames”

pp 237-256

12 - Jurisdiction : Oceanic Erasure and Indigenous Subjection in Dryden’s Amboyna

pp 257-282

13 - Thinking with the Ocean as Decolonial Strategy : Memory, Loss, and the Underwater Archive in Shakespeare’s The Tempest

pp 283-302

Afterword: Thinking Water

pp 303-308

Index

pp 309-313