Vin Nardizzi

Wooden Os

Shakespeare's Theatres and England's Trees

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By considering works including Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, the revised Spanish Tragedy, and The Tempest, Nardizzi demonstrates how the “trees” within them were used in imaginative ways to mediate England’s resource crisis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781442646001
• ISBN-10: 1442646004
• Artikelnr.: 37048963

Autorenporträt

Vin Nardizzi is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Prologue: Evergreen Fantasies: Utopia’s Trees and Early Modern Theatre
Introduction: Wood, Timber, and Theatre in Early Modern England
Chapter 1: “Vanish the tree”: Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay at the Rose
Chapter 2: “Come, will this wood take fire?” The Merry Wives of Windsor in
Shakespeare’s Theatres
Chapter 3: “Down with these branches and these loathsome boughs / Of this
unfortunate and fatal pine”: The Composite Spanish Tragedy at the Fortune
Chapter 4: “There’s wood enough within”: The Tempest’s Logs and The
Resources of Shakespeare’s Globe
Epilogue: The Afterlives of the Globe
Notes
Bibliography
Index