Environmental degradation in Jacobean drama [electronic resource] / Bruce Boehrer.
2013
PR678.E58 B64 2013
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Title
Environmental degradation in Jacobean drama [electronic resource] / Bruce Boehrer.
Author
Boehrer, Bruce Thomas.
ISBN
9781107023154
9781107306592 (electronic book)
9781107306592 (electronic book)
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
vi, 216 p.
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PR678.E58 B64 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
822/.309355
Summary
"In Environmental Degradation in Jacobean Drama, Bruce Boehrer provides the first general history of the Shakespearean stage to focus primarily on ecological issues. Early modern English drama was conditioned by the environmental events of the cities and landscapes within which it developed. Boehrer introduces Jacobean London as the first modern European metropolis in an England beset by problems of overpopulation; depletion of resources and species; land, water and air pollution; disease and other health-related issues; and associated changes in social behavior and cultural output. In six chapters he discusses the work of the most productive and influential playwrights of the day: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Fletcher, Dekker and Heywood, exploring the strategies by which they made sense of radical ecological change in their drama. In the process, Boehrer sketches out these playwrights' differing responses to environmental issues and traces their legacy for later literary formulations of green consciousness"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Middleton and ecological change; 2. Jonson and the universe of things; 3. Shakespeare's dirt; 4. John Fletcher and the ecology of manhood; 5. Dekker's walks and orchards; 6. Heywood and the spectacle of the hunt; Conclusion.