Shakespeare's nature : from cultivation to culture / Charlotte Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Charlotte.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism and interpretation.

Nature in literature.

Agriculture in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 257 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

This book offers the first sustained account of the impact of the language and practice of husbandry on Shakespeare's work. It shows how the early modern discourse of cultivation changes attitude to the natural world, and traces the interrelationships between the human and the natural worlds in Shakespeare's work through dramatic and poetic models of intervention, management, prudence and profit. Ranging from the Sonnets to 'The Tempest', the book explains how cultivation of the land responds to and reinforces social welfare, and reveals the extent to which the dominant industry of Shakespeare's time shaped a new language of social relations. Beginning with an examination of the rise in the production of early modern printed husbandry manuals, Shakespeare's Nature draws on the varied fields of economic, agrarian, humanist, Christian and literary studies, showing how the language of husbandry redefined Elizabethan attitudes to both the human and non-human worlds.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 The Sonnets, Early Modern Husbandry Manuals, and the Cultivation of Value 35

3 Henry V: Humanity and Husbandry 83

4 Darkness Visible: Macbeth and the Poetics of the Unnatural 121

5 Even Better than the Real Thing? Art and Nature in The Winter's Tale 151

6 Prospero's Husbandry and the Cultivation of Anxiety 187

7 Conclusion 217.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227] -244) and index.

ISBN:

9780199685080

0199685088

OCLC:

833404673