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"The Coast of Bohemia" - Blue Humanities Launch Lecture with Professor Steve Mentz

The Coast of Bohemia: Water and Survival in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale This blue humanities lecture about The Winter’s Tale dives into the poet’s gap between “lies by” and “I’ll believe.” The theatrical waterscape of Shakespeare’s fantastical coast of Bohemia brings together the disparate forces of imagination and material reality. Questions of stability and change dominate both the micro-structures of individual passages and the macro-structures of the play as a whole. In this mixed environment, the purpose of playing becomes survival in a fluid environment. To endure shipwreck and abandonment requires managing errancy over time. Error itself becomes both the play’s essential romance principle and its animating survival strategy. Shakespeare’s transformation of the “deserts of Bohemia” into a fertile seaside provides the watery substrate of the play’s utopian countermovement. A focus on the materiality of water – which the play represents in tears, in waves, and in the sea – enables a reconsideration of Shakespeare’s understandings of Art and Nature, which turn out to depend upon dynamic concepts of both Error and Time. Emerging at length on what Bachmann terms a “doubtful sea,” The Winter’s Tale transforms blue humanities tropes such as shipwreck and alienation into representations of collective endurance. Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City. 00:00 Sir Jonathan Bate, IHR Blue Humanities Director, Arizona State University Introducing the Event 08:53 Steve Mentz, Professor of English, St. John's University, "Coast of Bohemia" 1:02:07 Q&A