Shakespeare and ecology

Shakespeare and ecology

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Shakespeare and Ecologyis 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 inThe Merry Wives of WindsorandThe Tempest; profit-driven agriculture inAs You Like It; and gunpowder warfare and remedial cultivation inHenry IV Parts One and Two,Henry V, andMacbeth. A fourth chapter examines the interdependency of local and global eco-relations inCymbeline, and the final chapter explores Darwinian micro-ecologies inHamletandAntony and Cleopatra. An epilogue suggests that Shakespeare's greatest potential for mobilizing modern ecological ideas and practices lies in contemporary performance.Shakespeare and Ecologyilluminates 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.
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Name of the Author
Martin
Randall
Language
English
Series
Oxford Shakespeare Topics
ISBN
9780199567027
Release date
2015

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