Shakespeare On The Ecological Surface

Author : Liz Oakley-Brown
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003828930
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface written by Liz Oakley-Brown and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface uses the concept of the ‘surface’ to examine the relationship between contemporary performance and ecocriticism. Each section looks, in turn, at the 'surfaces' of slick, smoke, sky, steam, soil, slime, snail, silk, skin and stage to build connections between ecocriticism, activism, critical theory, Shakespeare and performance. While the word ‘surface’ was never used in Shakespeare’s works, Liz Oakley-Brown shows how thinking about Shakespearean surfaces helps readers explore the politics of Elizabethan and Jacobean culture. She also draws surprising parallels with our current political and ecological concerns. The book explores how Shakespeare uses ecological surfaces to help understand other types of surfaces in his plays and poems: characters’ public-facing selves; contact zones between characters and the natural world; surfaces upon which words are written; and physical surfaces upon which plays are staged. This book will be an illuminating read for anyone studying Shakespeare, early modern culture, ecocriticism, performance and activism.

Author : Paul Prescott
Publisher : Arden Shakespeare
ISBN 13 : 1350282901
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Ecology and Adaptation written by Paul Prescott and published by Arden Shakespeare. This book was released on 2025-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we tune into the ecological dynamics of Shakespeare's plays? How can we adapt those plays to address current environmental crises? This is the first book to fuse Shakespearean ecocriticism with adaptation studies. It is a single critical and contextual resource for students embarking on an in-depth exploration of ecological approaches to Shakespeare and adaptation, providing both critical insight into adaptive performance practices and accessible contextual information on the field of ecocriticism and early modern environmental cultures. This guide offers: - Primary texts from the early modern period to the present, covering themes such as weather, botany, agriculture, fertility, land rights, animal and human relationships, metamorphosis and adaptation; - A focus on 3 of the most studied and adapted plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear and The Tempest, as a basis for the wider application of ecological adaptive principles to Shakespeare; - A full range of environmental references in each play through innovative Eco-Tables; - Concise summaries of literary ecocriticism in relation to each key text; - Sustained attention to performance and creative writing as ecocritical interventions; - The first dedicated chapter in the field offering conceptual and practical resources for staging your own Shakespearean eco-adaptation; - A glossary of key terms and links to resources; - An accompanying companion website featuring additional resources. Shakespeare, Ecology and Adaptation: A Practical Guide provides a pedagogic pathway and a ready-made syllabus for teachers. It is also an indispensable resource for theatre directors, designers and dramaturgs seeking inspiration for the environmentally engaged productions and adaptations the future demands of us.

Author : Sophie Chiari
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350110477
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Environment: A Dictionary written by Sophie Chiari and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While our physical surroundings fashion our identities, we, in turn, fashion the natural elements in which or with which we live. This complex interaction between the human and the non-human already resonated in Shakespeare's plays and poems. As details of the early modern supra- and infra-celestial landscape feature in his works, this dictionary brings to the fore Shakespeare's responsiveness to and acute perception of his 'environment' and it covers the most significant uses of words related to this concept. In doing so, it also examines the epistemological changes that were taking place at the turn of the 17th century in a society which increasingly tried to master nature and its elements. For this reason, the intersections between the natural and the supernatural receive special emphasis. All in all, this dictionary offers a wide variety of resources that takes stock of the 'green criticism' that recently emerged in Shakespeare studies and provides a clear and complete overview of the idea, imagery and language of environment in the canon.

Author : Mrs. C. C. Stopes
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267842100
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Environment (Classic Reprint) written by Mrs. C. C. Stopes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare's Environment He was fortunate also in the period in which he arrived. England's heart was heaving. Great Spiritual movements had stirred men's souls to their depths, and given them inspiration to think for themselves amid diverse creeds the literary renaissance had brought their intellects in touch with the great minds of other times, and diverse countries; learning had become a bunger as well as a fashion; students translated, imitated, emulated the philosophers and poets of Greece, Italy, and France. England was in the high tide of fervour through its emancipation from the Pope's authority, its new sense of independence, its command of the sea, and its ever-widening geographical horizons; the romance of a maiden Queen, fortunate since her accession, made a new development in the spirit of patriotism. Poets born in the previous reigns shed their glories on Elizabeth's. The very atmosphere was charged with negative poetical electricity, which only waited for a positive stimulus to flash forth in light. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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

Author : Sophie Chiari
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474442544
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( 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 2018-11-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of Byzantine warfare in the tenth century.

Author : C C Stopes
Publisher : Alpha Edition
ISBN 13 : 9789357972536
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Environment written by C C Stopes and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2023-12-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's environment, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, and hence their text is clear and readable. This remarkable volume falls within the genres of Language and Literatures English literature

Author : Charlotte Carmichael Stopes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Environment written by Charlotte Carmichael Stopes and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charlotte Carmichael Stopes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Shakespeare's Environment written by Charlotte Carmichael Stopes and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Isabel Karremann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350282987
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare / Space written by Isabel Karremann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare / Space explores new approaches to the enactment of 'space' in and through Shakespeare's plays, as well as to the material, cognitive and virtual spaces in which they are enacted. With contributions from 14 leading and emergent experts in their fields, the collection forges innovative connections between spatial studies and cultural geography, cognitive studies, memory studies, phenomenology and the history of the emotions, gender and race studies, rhetoric and language, translation studies, theatre history and performance studies. Each chapter offers methodological reflections on intersections such as space/mobility, space/emotion, space/supernatural, space/language, space/race and space/digital, whose critical purchase is demonstrated in close readings of plays like King Lear, The Comedy of Errors, Othello and Shakespeare's history plays. They testify to the importance of space for our understanding of Shakespeare's creative and theatrical practice, and at the same time enlarge our understanding of space as a critical concept in the humanities. It will prove useful to students, scholars, teachers and theatre practitioners of Shakespeare and early modern studies.