Ecocritical Shakespeare
By: edited by Lynne Bruckner and Daniel Brayton
Contributors: Brayton, Daniel
Series: Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity; Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780754669197; 9781409433224
Subjects: Natural history; Ecocriticism; Knowledge; Human ecology in literature; Nature in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247]-270) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: warbling invaders  -- Dan Brayton and Lynne Bruckner; title: Contexts for reading --; title: Vermin and parasites: Shakespeare's animal architectures  -- Karen Raber; title: Ecology of self in Midsummer night's dream  -- Robert N. Watson; title: Gaia and the great chain of being  -- Gabriel Egan; title: Is it Shakespearean ecocriticism if it isn't Presentist?  -- Sharon O'Dair; title: Flora, fauna, weather, water --; title: "The Nobleness of life": Spontaneous generation and excremental life in Anthony and Cleopatra  -- Edward J. Geisweidt; title: The well-hung shrew  -- J. A. Shea and Paul Yachnin; title: Felling Falstaff in Windsor Park  -- Vin Nardizzi; title: It's all about the gillyvors: engendering art and nature in The Winter's Tale  -- Jennifer Munroe; title: Tongues in the Storm: Shakespeare, ecological crisis, and the resources of genre  -- Steve Mentz; title: Shakespeare and the global ocean  -- Dan Brayton; title: Presentism and pedagogy --; title: An ecocritic's Macbeth  -- Richard Kerridge; title: Ophelia's plants and the death of violets  -- Rebecca Laroche; title: Teaching Shakespeare in the ecotone  -- Lynne Bruckner; title: Afterword: Ecocriticism on the lip of a lion -- Simon C. Estok.