TY - BOOK AU - Bruckner,Lynne Dickson AU - Brayton,Daniel TI - Ecocritical Shakespeare T2 - Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity SN - 9781409433224 AV - PR3039 .B78 2011eb U1 - 822.3/3 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Farnham, Surrey, England, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - Shakespeare, William, KW - Ecocriticism KW - Nature in literature KW - Human ecology in literature KW - Écocritique KW - Nature dans la littérature KW - Écologie humaine dans la littérature KW - DRAMA KW - Shakespeare KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - fast KW - Natural history KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword -- Greg Garrard; Introduction: Warbling Invaders; PART I: CONTEXTS FOR READING; 1 Vermin and Parasites: Shakespeare's Animal Architectures; 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?; PART II: FLORA, FAUNA, WEATHER, WATER; 5 "The Nobleness of Life": Spontaneous Generation and Excremental Life in Antony and Cleopatra; 6 The Well-Hung Shrew; 7 Felling Falstaff in Windsor Park N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=398161 ER -