The sea is frequently mentioned—and used as a metaphor—in the dramatic works of Shakespeare. To provide myself an overview, I created the table presented below. I originally intended to investigate the entire canon of Shakespeare’s plays in regard to shipwrecks, but found it astonishingly difficult to define that canon. One could easily fill another book …
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The sea – ‘central’ in Shakespeare’s work?
‘The sea itself in its varied working tides, waves, currents, storms and calms, never goes out of [Shakespeare’s] work’, as Falconer rather poetically observes. It is true that in every single play – as far away as it may be situated from the sea – there is at least one metaphor or phrase about the …
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Shakespeare's Shipwrecks 