Shakespeare And The Natural World

Author : Tom MacFaul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316404773
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Natural World written by Tom MacFaul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the rich range of meanings that Shakespeare finds in the natural world, this book fuses ecocritical approaches to Renaissance literature with recent thinking about the significance of religion in Shakespeare's plays. MacFaul offers a clear introduction to some of the key problems in Renaissance natural philosophy and their relationship to Reformation theology, with individual chapters focusing on the role of animals in Shakespeare's universe, the representation of rural life, and the way in which humans' consumption of natural materials transforms their destinies. These discussions enable powerful new readings of Shakespeare's plays, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, King Lear, Macbeth, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, and the history plays. Proposing that Shakespeare's representation of the relationship between man and nature anticipated that of the Romantics, this volume will interest scholars of Shakespeare studies, Renaissance drama and literature, and ecocritical studies of Shakespeare.

Author : Tom MacFaul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107117933
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Natural World written by Tom MacFaul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the rich range of meanings that Shakespeare finds in the natural world, enabling new readings of his works.

Author : B. Boehrer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230602126
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Among the Animals written by B. Boehrer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-03-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare Among the Animals examines the role of animal-metaphor in the Shakespeare stage, particularly as such metaphor serves to underwrite various forms of social difference. Working through texts such as Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream , Jonson's Volpone , and Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside , different chapters of the study focus upon the allegedly natural character of femininity, masculinity, and ethnicity, while a fourth chapter considers the nature of the natural world itself as it appears on the Renaissance stage. Addressing each of these topics in turn, Shakespeare Among the Animals explores the notions of cultural order that underlie early modern conceptions of the natural world, and the ideas of nature implicit in early modern social practice.

Author : Simon C. Estok
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230118747
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecocriticism and Shakespeare written by Simon C. Estok and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of 'Nature' in Shakespeare.

Author : Geoffrey Bush
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Natural Condition written by Geoffrey Bush and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a remarkably ambitious and original book, Geoffrey Bush has treated Shakespeare's attitude toward nature in his plays, culminating in Hamlet and King Lear. His method is artful and highly effective : the book's structure is impressionistic -- the author circles around his subject in a spiral, touching, in each revolution, once more on themes he has mentioned earlier : comedy and the conventions of comedy vs. tragedy and its conventions ; the hero vs. the fool ; the certainty of comedy vs. the ambiguity of tragedy ; Nature and Christianity."--Book cover.

Author : Thomas Willard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782503590448
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Natural World in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by Thomas Willard and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environment--together with ecology and other aspects of the way people see their world--has become a major focus of pre-modern studies. The thirteen contributions in this volume discuss topics across the millennium in Europe from the late 600s to the early 1600s. They introduce applications to older texts, art works, and ideas made possible by relatively new fields of discourse such as animal studies, ecotheology, and Material Engagement Theory. From studies of medieval land charters and epics to the canticles sung in churches, the encyclopedic natural histories compiled for the learned, the hunting parks described and illustrated for the aristocracy, chronicles from the New World, classical paintings from the Old World, and the plays of Shakespeare, the authors engage with the human responses to nature in times when it touched their lives more intimately than it does for people today, even though this contact raised concerns that are still very much alive today.

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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008374457
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters to the Earth: Writing to a Planet in Crisis written by and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound, powerful and moving collection of 100 letters from around the world responding to the climate crisis, introduced by Emma Thompson and lovingly illustrated by CILIP award winner Jackie Morris. ‘All power to this amazing project.’ JOANNE HARRIS ‘Makes sense of the climate crisis in a whole new way’ MAGID MAGID

Author : Bessie Mayou
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368655140
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural History of Shakespeare written by Bessie Mayou and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Author : Dan Falk
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250008786
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Science of Shakespeare written by Dan Falk and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Shakespeare lived at a remarkable time—a period we now recognize as the first phase of the Scientific Revolution. New ideas were transforming Western thought, the medieval was giving way to the modern, and the work of a few key figures hinted at the brave new world to come: the methodical and rational Galileo, the skeptical Montaigne, and—as Falk convincingly argues—Shakespeare, who observed human nature just as intently as the astronomers who studied the night sky. In The Science of Shakespeare, we meet a colorful cast of Renaissance thinkers, including Thomas Digges, who published the first English account of the "new astronomy" and lived in the same neighborhood as Shakespeare; Thomas Harriot—"England's Galileo"—who aimed a telescope at the night sky months ahead of his Italian counterpart; and Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, whose observatory-castle stood within sight of Elsinore, chosen by Shakespeare as the setting for Hamlet—and whose family crest happened to include the names "Rosencrans" and "Guildensteren." And then there's Galileo himself: As Falk shows, his telescopic observations may have influenced one of Shakespeare's final works. Dan Falk's The Science of Shakespeare explores the connections between the famous playwright and the beginnings of the Scientific Revolution—and how, together, they changed the world forever.

Author : Sophie Chiari
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474442552
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment written by Sophie Chiari and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of Byzantine warfare in the tenth century