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Sophie Chiari analyses how Shakespeare's plays and poems present the transformation of the early modern natural world through environmental shifts and ecological transformation.
Using a range of examples from the Sonnets, Love's Labour's Lost, The Tempest, Hamlet and Henry V, Chiari's ecopoetic study of dramatic language explores Shakespeare's response to the rise of extractive exploitation in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Chiari expands our understanding of the environment in Shakespeare beyond the so-called 'green' comedies by charting the transition from a pre-capitalist world towards a commodity-based society ruined by the enclosure of the commons. Using examples of water systems, sandscapes, soil and frost alongside the production of glass and salt in Shakespeare, these materials which are currently underrepresented in Shakespearean ecocriticism signal a commitment to expanding the 'material turn' in Shakespeare studies. Far from being limited to the present era, this book argues that cultural hegemony and the exploitation of soil, water and ice were increasingly linked in the early modern era, an age of conquest and massive human depredation. By interweaving ecohistoricism, ecopoetics and material studies Shakespeare's Ecology of Natural Resources shows how an eco-minded approach, focused on the interweaving of trade, territory and extractivism reveals new layers of meaning in Shakespearean poetics and drama.
Using a range of examples from the Sonnets, Love's Labour's Lost, The Tempest, Hamlet and Henry V, Chiari's ecopoetic study of dramatic language explores Shakespeare's response to the rise of extractive exploitation in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Chiari expands our understanding of the environment in Shakespeare beyond the so-called 'green' comedies by charting the transition from a pre-capitalist world towards a commodity-based society ruined by the enclosure of the commons. Using examples of water systems, sandscapes, soil and frost alongside the production of glass and salt in Shakespeare, these materials which are currently underrepresented in Shakespearean ecocriticism signal a commitment to expanding the 'material turn' in Shakespeare studies. Far from being limited to the present era, this book argues that cultural hegemony and the exploitation of soil, water and ice were increasingly linked in the early modern era, an age of conquest and massive human depredation. By interweaving ecohistoricism, ecopoetics and material studies Shakespeare's Ecology of Natural Resources shows how an eco-minded approach, focused on the interweaving of trade, territory and extractivism reveals new layers of meaning in Shakespearean poetics and drama.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The fabric of life in the Sonnets
- 2 Crossing the nature/culture divide in Love’s Labour’s Lost
- 3 Water industry and riverine collapse
- 4 From early modern sandscapes to the making of glass
- 5 Underground Shakespeare: transgressing the limits and foraging the earth
- 6 Plotting, digging, burying and soil issues in Hamlet
- 7 Business in the frost in The Tempest
- 8 White ecology: the salt of early modern life
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Imprint