Title: Writing the forest in early modern England : a sylvan pastoral nation /
Authors: Theis, Jeffrey S.
Publisher: Duquesne University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: English literature History and criticism; Pastoral literature, English History and criticism.; Ecology in literature.; Forests in literature.; Environmentalism in literature.; Environmentalism England History; Environmentalism England History; Ecocriticism.
Abstract: "An ecocritical study of forests in early modern English literature, this book is the first to identify 'sylvan pastoral' as a distinct literary form and thus makes an important contribution to the growing field of ecocriticism and the history of environmentalism"--Provided by publisher.
Contents: The rise of sylvan pastoral: literary form meets forest history -- Shakespeare's green plot: the stage as forest and the forest as stage in As you like it -- Green plots and green plotters: A midsummer night's dream and sylvan struggle -- A border skirmish: community, deer poaching, and spatial transgression in The merry wives of Windsor -- Sylvan pastoral and the civil war: representing national trauma in sylvan terms -- Royalist woods -- John Milton's sylvan pastorals and the theatrical and godly individual.