Ecocritical Shakespeare

ISBN-13: 9781138254145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 304 str.

Lynne Bruckner; Dan Brayton

Opis

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 historicism and presentism as well as considering ecofeminism and pedagogy. Topics addressed include early modern representations of flora and fauna, human-animal relations, storms, the scala naturae, the marine environment, and pedagogy.

Spis treści

Introduction Warbling Invaders; I: Contexts for reading; 1: Vermin and Parasites; 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?; II: Flora, Fauna, Weather, Water; 5: “The Nobleness of Life”; 6: The Well-Hung Shrew; 7: Felling Falstaff in Windsor Park; 8: It's all about the gillyvors; 9: Tongues in the Storm; 10: Shakespeare and the Global Ocean; III: Presentism and Pedagogy; 11: An Ecocritic's Macbeth; 12: Ophelia's Plants and the Death of Violets; 13: Teaching Shakespeare in the Ecotone 1; Afterword

O autorze

Lynne Bruckner is an Associate Professor of English at Chatham University, USA, and Daniel Brayton is an Assistant Professor of English and American Literatures at Middlebury College, USA