Shakespeare and Ecology

Zusatztext I can think of no better way to celebrate [Shakespeare's] 400th anniversary than reading this book. Informationen zum Autor Randall Martin holds degrees from Toronto, Birmingham, and Oxford. He is the author of Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England (2007), and he has edited Every Man Out of His Humour for The Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson (2012) and Henry VI Part Three for the Oxford Shakespeare (2001). He has also recently co-edited Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama with Katherine Scheil (2011). Klappentext Shakespeare and Ecology shows how environmental problems typically associated with the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including pollution, deforestation, and climate change, actually began in Shakespeare's time and are reflected in many of his plays. Zusammenfassung Shakespeare and Ecology shows how environmental problems typically associated with the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including pollution, deforestation, and climate change, actually began in Shakespeare's time and are reflected in many of his plays. Inhaltsverzeichnis Ecological Modernity in Shakespeare: an overview 1: Localism, Deforestation, and Environmental Activism in The Merry Wives of Windsor 2: Land-uses and Convertible Husbandry in As You Like It 3: Gunpowder, Militarization, and Threshold Ecologies in Henry IV Part Two and Macbeth 4: Biospheric Ecologies in Cymbeline 5: Evolutionary Ecology in Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra Epilogue Further Reading

Product details

• Authors: Randall Martin, Randall (Professor of English Martin, Martin Randall
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.09.2015
• EAN: 9780199567010
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956701-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Oxford Shakespeare Topics; Oxford Shakespeare Topics; Oxford Shakespeare Topics (Pap
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean