Ecocritical Shakespeare /

The first collection devoted specifically to green Shakespeare, this volume engages with pressing environmental questions in order to provide a better understanding of where and how ecocritical readings should be situated. Ecocritical Shakespeare combines multiple critical perspectives, juxtaposing...

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Main Author: Bruckner, Lynne Dickson
Other Authors: Brayton, Daniel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2011
Series:Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword
  • Greg Garrard; Introduction: Warbling Invaders; PART I: CONTEXTS FOR READING; 1 Vermin and Parasites: Shakespeare's Animal Architectures; 2 The Ecology of Self in Midsummer Night's Dream; 3 Gaia and the Great Chain of Being; 4 Is it Shakespearean Ecocriticism if it isn't Presentist?; PART II: FLORA, FAUNA, WEATHER, WATER; 5 "The Nobleness of Life": Spontaneous Generation and Excremental Life in Antony and Cleopatra; 6 The Well-Hung Shrew; 7 Felling Falstaff in Windsor Park.