Environmental Degradation in Jacobean Drama

Informationen zum Autor Bruce Boehrer is Bertram H. Davis Professor in the Department of English at Florida State University. He is the author of five previous books, including most recently Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings and European Literature (2010). He is the editor of A Cultural History of Animals in the Renaissance (2007) and since 1999 he has served first as founding Editor and now as Co-Editor of the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. Klappentext Bruce Boehrer's book is the first general history of the Shakespearean stage to focus primarily on ecological issues. Zusammenfassung Environmental Degradation in Jacobean Drama provides the first general history of the Shakespearean stage to focus primarily on ecological issues. Bruce Boehrer discusses the work of Shakespeare! Jonson! Middleton! Fletcher! Dekker and Heywood! exploring the strategies by which they made sense of radical ecological change in their drama. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Middleton and ecological change; 2. Jonson and the universe of things; 3. Shakespeare's dirt; 4. John Fletcher and the ecology of manhood; 5. Dekker's walks and orchards; 6. Heywood and the spectacle of the hunt; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce Boehrer, Bruce (Florida State University) Boehrer, Bruce Thomas Boehrer, BOEHRER BRUCE THOMAS
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.02.2013
• EAN: 9781107023154
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02315-4
• No. of pages: 221
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights