Vin Nardizzi

Wooden Os (eBook, PDF)

Shakespeare's Theatres and England's Trees

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Produktbeschreibung

Wooden Os is a study of the presence of trees and wood in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries ¿ in plays set within forests, in character dialogue, and in props and theatre constructions. Vin Nardizzi connects these themes to the dependence, and surprising ecological impact, of London¿s commercial theatre industry on England¿s woodlands, the primary resource required to build all structures in early modern England.Wooden Os situates the theatre within an environmental history that witnessed a perceived scarcity of wood and timber that drove up prices, as well as statute law prohibiting the devastation of English woodlands and urgent calls for the remedying of a resource shortage that was feared would result in eco-political collapse. 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. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442664173
• Artikelnr.: 54189031

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