Having done some review work for Continuum, one of the books I asked for was Steve Mentz, At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean. The book had been sitting on my desk for a few days before I took it with me on a train trip. It’s a very interesting read, taking a number of different plays to open up issues around the ocean and activities on or in it – fishing, swimming, drowning, and so on. It engages with some of the historical and geographical work on the sea – people like Chris Connolly and Phil Steinburg. It has a very helpful bibliographical essay at the end entitled ‘Reading the New Thassology’. You can read a sample chapter here. I then discovered Steve had been reading this blog for a while, when he commented on a post of mine on Coriolanus. Steve himself has an interesting blog here.