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Shakespeare and ecology /
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, a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Oxford Shakespeare topics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.