TY - BOOK AU - Martin,Randall TI - Shakespeare and Ecology T2 - Oxford Shakespeare Topics Series SN - 9780191088094 AV - PR3039 U1 - 822.3/3 PY - 2015/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press, Incorporated KW - Ecology in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Shakespeare and Ecology -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Ecological Modernity in Shakespeare: an overview -- Global ecologies -- Environmental change and ecological consciousness: shifting climate patterns and extreme weather -- Demographic pressures: 'The world must be peopled' -- Exploitation, consumption, and ecological instability: deforestation -- Exploiting and conserving husbandry -- The twilight of swords into ploughshares -- Preserving biodiversity in a multipolar world -- Evolutionary transience and transcendence -- 1: Localism, Deforestation, and Environmental Activism in The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Deforestation: through a glass darkly -- Brave new worlds and sustainability -- Environmental history: first steps in conservation and reforestation -- Environmental activism in Windsor Forest -- 2: Land-Uses and Convertible Husbandry in As You Like It -- Thinking like a forest -- Forest space in history and theory -- Improvement and thrift -- Affording conversion -- Whither nature? -- No end of conversion -- 3: Gunpowder, Militarization, and Threshold Ecologies in Henry IV Part Two and Macbeth -- O you mortal engines, whose rude throats / Th'immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit . . . (Othello, 3.3.357-58) -- 'Turning Tech' -- Deforestation militant -- 'Villainous saltpetre' -- The georgic contract and its limits -- Eco-cosmopolitanism -- War, the environment, and health -- 'What visionary poet will lament vile, bloody-fingered dawn?' -- Enter three . . . -- Stirring the environmental pot -- 4: Biospheric Ecologies in Cymbeline -- Bad farming -- Extinctive nationalism -- Living like a Welsh mountain -- Environmental symmetries -- Innogen's nests -- 5 'I wish you joy of the worm': Evolutionary ecology in Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra; In the midst of death, we are in life -- Levelling the food and species chains (1): Hamlet -- Levelling the food and species chains (2): Antony and Cleopatra -- Fertile transience (1) -- Fertile transience (2) -- Follow the slime: Pathways of extinction and survival -- Until we meet again, Alexander -- The afterlife of sparrows -- Epilogue: Shakespeare and Ecology in performance -- Notes -- ECOLOGICAL MODERNITY IN SHAKESPEARE: AN OVERVIEW -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- EPILOGUE -- Further Reading -- Index N2 - Shakespeare and Ecology shows how environmental problems typically associated with the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including pollution, deforestation, and climate change, actually began in Shakespeare's time and are reflected in many of his plays UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4310780 ER -