| Description |
1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
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Oxford Shakespeare topics |
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Oxford Shakespeare topics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Shakespeare and Ecology; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; Ecological Modernity in Shakespeare: an overview; Global ecologies; Environmental change and ecological consciousness: shifting climate patterns and extreme weather; Demographic pressures: 'The world must be peopled'; Exploitation, consumption, and ecological instability: deforestation; Exploiting and conserving husbandry; The twilight of swords into ploughshares; Preserving biodiversity in a multipolar world; Evolutionary transience and transcendence |
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1: Localism, Deforestation, and Environmental Activism in The Merry Wives of WindsorDeforestation: through a glass darkly; Brave new worlds and sustainability; Environmental history: first steps in conservation and reforestation; Environmental activism in Windsor Forest; 2: Land-Uses and Convertible Husbandry in As You Like It; Thinking like a forest; Forest space in history and theory; Improvement and thrift; Affording conversion; Whither nature?; No end of conversion; 3: Gunpowder, Militarization, and Threshold Ecologies in Henry IV Part Two and Macbeth |
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O you mortal engines, whose rude throats / Th'immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit . . . (Othello, 3.3.357-58)'Turning Tech'; Deforestation militant; 'Villainous saltpetre'; The georgic contract and its limits; Eco-cosmopolitanism; War, the environment, and health; 'What visionary poet will lament vile, bloody-fingered dawn?'; Enter three . . .; Stirring the environmental pot; 4: Biospheric Ecologies in Cymbeline; Bad farming; Extinctive nationalism; Living like a Welsh mountain; Environmental symmetries; Innogen's nests |
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5 'I wish you joy of the worm': Evolutionary ecology in Hamlet and Antony and CleopatraIn the midst of death, we are in life; Levelling the food and species chains (1): Hamlet; Levelling the food and species chains (2): Antony and Cleopatra; Fertile transience (1); Fertile transience (2); Follow the slime: Pathways of extinction and survival; Until we meet again, Alexander; The afterlife of sparrows; Epilogue: Shakespeare and Ecology in performance; Notes; ECOLOGICAL MODERNITY IN SHAKESPEARE: AN OVERVIEW; CHAPTER 1; CHAPTER 2; CHAPTER 3; CHAPTER 4; CHAPTER 5; EPILOGUE; Further Reading; Index |
| Summary |
'Shakespeare and Ecology' shows how environmental problems typically associated with the 19th and 20th centuries including pollution, deforestation, and climate change, actually began in Shakespeare's time and are reflected in many of his plays |
| Notes |
Previously issued in print: 2015 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Environment
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Ecology in literature.
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Ecology in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191917851 (ebook) |
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0191917850 (ebook) |
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0191088099 |
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9780191088094 |
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