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Shakespeare and Ecology

Author : Randall Martin
Publisher : Oxford Shakespeare Topics
ISBN 13 : 0199567018
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Ecology written by Randall Martin and published by Oxford Shakespeare Topics. This book was released on 2015 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and Ecology is the first book to explore the topical contexts that shaped the environmental knowledge and politics of Shakespeare and his audiences. Early modern England experienced unprecedented environmental challenges including climate change, population growth, resource shortfalls, and habitat destruction which anticipate today's globally magnified crises. Shakespeare wove these events into the poetic textures and embodied action of his drama, contributing to the formation of a public ecological consciousness, while opening creative pathways for re-imagining future human relationships with the natural world and non-human life. This book begins with an overview of ecological modernity across Shakespeare's work before focusing on three major environmental controversies in particular plays: deforestation in The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Tempest; profit-driven agriculture in As You Like It; and gunpowder warfare and remedial cultivation in Henry IV Parts One and Two, Henry V, and Macbeth. A fourth chapter examines the interdependency of local and global eco-relations in Cymbeline, and the final chapter explores Darwinian micro-ecologies in Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra. An epilogue suggests that Shakespeare's greatest potential for mobilizing modern ecological ideas and practices lies in contemporary performance. Shakespeare and Ecology illuminates the historical antecedents of modern ecological knowledge and activism, and explores Shakespeare's capacity for generating imaginative and performative responses to today's environmental challenges.

Ecocritical Shakespeare

Author : Lynne Bruckner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317146433
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Ecocritical Shakespeare written by Lynne Bruckner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare contribute to the health of the planet? To what degree are Shakespeare's plays anthropocentric or ecocentric? What is the connection between the literary and the real when it comes to ecological conduct? This collection, engages with these pressing questions surrounding ecocritical Shakespeare, in order to provide a better understanding of where and how ecocritical readings should be situated. The volume combines multiple critical perspectives, juxtaposing historicism and presentism, as well as considering ecofeminism and pedagogy; and addresses such topics as early modern flora and fauna, and the neglected areas of early modern marine ecology and oceanography. Concluding with an assessment of the challenges-and necessities-of teaching Shakespeare ecocritically, Ecocritical Shakespeare not only broadens the implications of ecocriticism in early modern studies, but represents an important contribution to this growing field.

Ecocriticism and Shakespeare

Author : Simon C. Estok
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230118747
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Ecocriticism and Shakespeare written by Simon C. Estok and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of 'Nature' in Shakespeare.

Green Shakespeare

Author : Gabriel Egan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134351224
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Green Shakespeare written by Gabriel Egan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecocriticism, a theoretical movement examining cultural constructions of Nature in their social and political contexts, is making an increasingly important contribution to our understanding of Shakespeare’s plays. Gabriel Egan's Green Shakespeare presents: an overview of the concept of ecocriticism detailed ecocritical readings of Henry V, Macbeth, As You Like It, Antony & Cleopatra, King Lear, Coriolanus, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest analysis of themes such as nature and human society; food and biological nature; the supernatural and the weather a bold argument for a contemporary ‘EcoShakespeare’, taking into account the environmental and political implications of globalization and intellectual property laws. Crossing the boundaries of literary and cultural studies to draw in politics, philosophy and ecology, this volume not only introduces one of the most lively areas of contemporary Shakespeare studies, but also puts forward a convincing case for Shakespeare’s continuing relevance to contemporary theory.

Shakespeare, Ecology and Adaptation

Author : Paul Prescott
Publisher : Arden Shakespeare
ISBN 13 : 9781350282902
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Ecology and Adaptation written by Paul Prescott and published by Arden Shakespeare. This book was released on 2025-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we tune into the ecological dynamics of Shakespeare's plays? How can we adapt those plays to address current environmental crises? This is the first book to fuse Shakespearean ecocriticism with adaptation studies. It is a single critical and contextual resource for students embarking on an in-depth exploration of ecological approaches to Shakespeare and adaptation, providing both critical insight into adaptive performance practices and accessible contextual information on the field of ecocriticism and early modern environmental cultures. This guide offers: - Primary texts from the early modern period to the present, covering themes such as weather, botany, agriculture, fertility, land rights, animal and human relationships, metamorphosis and adaptation; - A focus on 3 of the most studied and adapted plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear and The Tempest, as a basis for the wider application of ecological adaptive principles to Shakespeare; - A full range of environmental references in each play through innovative Eco-Tables; - Concise summaries of literary ecocriticism in relation to each key text; - Sustained attention to performance and creative writing as ecocritical interventions; - The first dedicated chapter in the field offering conceptual and practical resources for staging your own Shakespearean eco-adaptation; - A glossary of key terms and links to resources; - An accompanying companion website featuring additional resources. Shakespeare, Ecology and Adaptation: A Practical Guide provides a pedagogic pathway and a ready-made syllabus for teachers. It is also an indispensable resource for theatre directors, designers and dramaturgs seeking inspiration for the environmentally engaged productions and adaptations the future demands of us.

Shakespeare and Ecology

Author : Randall Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199567026
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Ecology written by Randall Martin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and Ecology is the first book to explore the topical contexts that shaped the environmental knowledge and politics of Shakespeare and his audiences. Early modern England experienced unprecedented environmental challenges including climate change, population growth, resource shortfalls, and habitat destruction which anticipate today's globally magnified crises. Shakespeare wove these events into the poetic textures and embodied action of his drama, contributing to the formation of a public ecological consciousness, while opening creative pathways for re-imagining future human relationships with the natural world and non-human life. This book begins with an overview of ecological modernity across Shakespeare's work before focusing on three major environmental controversies in particular plays: deforestation in The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Tempest; profit-driven agriculture in As You Like It; and gunpowder warfare and remedial cultivation in Henry IV Parts One and Two, Henry V, and Macbeth. A fourth chapter examines the interdependency of local and global eco-relations in Cymbeline, and the final chapter explores Darwinian micro-ecologies in Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra. An epilogue suggests that Shakespeare's greatest potential for mobilizing modern ecological ideas and practices lies in contemporary performance. Shakespeare and Ecology illuminates the historical antecedents of modern ecological knowledge and activism, and explores Shakespeare's capacity for generating imaginative and performative responses to today's environmental challenges.

Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface

Author : Liz Oakley-Brown
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003828930
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface written by Liz Oakley-Brown and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface uses the concept of the ‘surface’ to examine the relationship between contemporary performance and ecocriticism. Each section looks, in turn, at the 'surfaces' of slick, smoke, sky, steam, soil, slime, snail, silk, skin and stage to build connections between ecocriticism, activism, critical theory, Shakespeare and performance. While the word ‘surface’ was never used in Shakespeare’s works, Liz Oakley-Brown shows how thinking about Shakespearean surfaces helps readers explore the politics of Elizabethan and Jacobean culture. She also draws surprising parallels with our current political and ecological concerns. The book explores how Shakespeare uses ecological surfaces to help understand other types of surfaces in his plays and poems: characters’ public-facing selves; contact zones between characters and the natural world; surfaces upon which words are written; and physical surfaces upon which plays are staged. This book will be an illuminating read for anyone studying Shakespeare, early modern culture, ecocriticism, performance and activism.

Shakespeare's Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment

Author : Sophie Chiari
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474442552
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment written by Sophie Chiari and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of Byzantine warfare in the tenth century

Shakespeare and the Environment: A Dictionary

Author : Sophie Chiari
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350110477
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Environment: A Dictionary written by Sophie Chiari and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While our physical surroundings fashion our identities, we, in turn, fashion the natural elements in which or with which we live. This complex interaction between the human and the non-human already resonated in Shakespeare's plays and poems. As details of the early modern supra- and infra-celestial landscape feature in his works, this dictionary brings to the fore Shakespeare's responsiveness to and acute perception of his 'environment' and it covers the most significant uses of words related to this concept. In doing so, it also examines the epistemological changes that were taking place at the turn of the 17th century in a society which increasingly tried to master nature and its elements. For this reason, the intersections between the natural and the supernatural receive special emphasis. All in all, this dictionary offers a wide variety of resources that takes stock of the 'green criticism' that recently emerged in Shakespeare studies and provides a clear and complete overview of the idea, imagery and language of environment in the canon.

Shakespeare and the Idea of the Book

Author : Charlotte Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199212104
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Idea of the Book written by Charlotte Scott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an exploration of the conversations between two media the book and the stage, as they evolved in both competition and sympathy. Focusing on seven of Shakespeare's plays, the text argues the book on stage offers one of the most articulate and developed hermeneutic tools available in the study of early modern English culture.

Ecology and Environment in European Drama

Author : Downing Cless
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136972056
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Ecology and Environment in European Drama written by Downing Cless and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at European drama through an ecological lens, this book chronicles nature and the environment as primary topics in major plays from ancient to recent times. Cless focuses on the few, yet well-known plays in which nature is at stake in the action or the environment is a dramatic force. Though theater predominantly explores human and cultural themes, these plays fully display the power of the other-than-human world and its endangerment during the history of Europe. While offering a broad overview, the book features extensive case studies of several playwrights, plays, and eco-theater productions: Aristophanes’ The Birds, Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest, and Giraudoux’s The Madwoman of Chaillot. In each case, Cless connects nature in the play to nature in the life of the playwright based on biographical research into the understanding of natural philosophy and awareness of the immediate environment that influenced the specific play. The book is one of the first of its kind in a growing field of ecocriticism and emerging eco-studies of theater.

Life in the Cold

Author : Peter J. Marchand
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611681472
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Life in the Cold written by Peter J. Marchand and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000-10-03 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A third edition of a classic work on cold climate ecosystems, updated with a new chapter on mammals and birds.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy

Author : Heather Hirschfeld
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019104346X
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy written by Heather Hirschfeld and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises. It engages with perennial, yet still urgent questions raised by the comedies and looks at them from a range of new perspectives that represent the most recent methodological approaches to Shakespeare, genre, and early modern drama. Several chapters take up firmly established topics of inquiry such Shakespeare's source materials, gender and sexuality, hetero- and homoerotic desire, race, and religion, and they reformulate these topics in the materialist, formalist, phenomenological, or revisionist terms of current scholarship and critical debate. Others explore subjects that have only relatively recently become pressing concerns for sustained scholarly interrogation, such as ecology, cross-species interaction, and humoral theory. Some contributions, informed by increasingly sophisticated approaches to the material conditions and embodied experience of theatrical practice, speak to a resurgence of interest in performance, from Shakespeare's period through the first decades of the twenty-first century. Others still investigate distinct sets of plays from unexpected and often polemical angles, noting connections between the comedies under inventive, unpredicted banners such as the theology of adultery, early modern pedagogy, global exploration, or monarchical rule. All the chapters offer contemporary perspectives on the plays even as they gesture to critical traditions, and they illuminate as well as challenge some of our most cherished expectations about the ways in which Shakespearean comedy affects its audiences. The Handbook situates these approaches against the long history of criticism and provides a valuable overview of the most up-to-date work in the field.

At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean

Author : Steve Mentz
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847064922
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean written by Steve Mentz and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating study revealing Shakespeare's career-long engagement with the sea and his frequent use of maritime imagery.

Queer Shakespeare

Author : Goran Stanivukovic
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474295266
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Queer Shakespeare written by Goran Stanivukovic and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of the criticism of desire, body and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama and poetry. Bringing together some of the most prominent critics working at the intersection of Shakespeare criticism and queer theory, this collection demonstrates the vibrancy of queer Shakespeare studies. Taken together, these essays explore embodiment, desire, sexuality and gender as key objects of analyses, producing concepts and ideas that draw critical energy from focused studies of time, language and nature. The Afterword extends these inquiries by linking the Anthropocene and queer ecology with Shakespeare criticism. Works from Shakespeare's entire canon feature in essays which explore topics like glass, love, antitheatrical homophobia, size, narrative, sound, female same-sex desire and Petrarchism, weather, usury and sodomy, male femininity and male-to-female crossdressing, contagion, and antisocial procreation.

The Ecology of Democracy

Author : David Mathews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780923993535
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book The Ecology of Democracy written by David Mathews and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is for people who care deeply about their communities and their country but worry about problems that endanger their future and that of their children. Jobs are disappearing, or the jobs people want aren't available. Health care costs keep going up, and the system seems harder to navigate. Many worry that our schools aren't as good as they should be. The political system is mired in hyperpolarization. Citizens feel pushed to the sidelines. This book is also for governmental and nongovernmental organizations, as well as educational institutions that are trying to engage these citizens. Their efforts aren't stopping the steady erosion of public confidence, so they are looking for a different kind of public participation." --Back cover

Shakespeare on the Double! Macbeth

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544187539
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare on the Double! Macbeth written by William Shakespeare and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-08-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No more "Double, double, toil and trouble?" Now you can learn Shakespeare on the double! Macbeth has all the ingredients of a modern day bestseller-greed, ambition, murder, mayhem, madness, politics, assassinations, hallucinations, prophecies, spells, and rebellion. Potions and emotions simmer. One betrayal leads to another. Now you can sit back and read Macbeth like the thriller it is! This modern, easy-to-understand translation makes reading it quick and painless. Other aids make following the action and grasping the meaning a snap: A brief synopsis of the plot and action A comprehensive character list that describes the characteristics, motivations, and actions of each major player A visual character map that shows the relationships of major characters A cycle-of-death graphic that pinpoints the sequence of deaths and includes who dies, how they die, and why Reflective questions that help you understand the themes of the play Shakespeare on the Double! Macbeth lets you enjoy this classic play your way!