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Author Martin, Randall, 1958-

Title Shakespeare and ecology / Randall Martin.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford Shakespeare topics
Oxford Shakespeare topics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- 1: Localism, Deforestation, and Environmental Activism in The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Deforestation: 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 -- 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 -- 5 'I wish you joy of the worm': Evolutionary ecology in Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra.
Summary 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 consciouness, 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 performace. -- from back cover.
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Natural history.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Ecology in literature.
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Ecology in literature
Natural history
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Martin, Randall, 1958- Shakespeare and ecology. First edition 9780199567027 (OCoLC)908374791
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