Wooden Os : Shakespeare's Theatres and England's Trees / Vin Nardizzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nardizzi, Vin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

Trees in literature.

Forests in literature.

Deforestation--Environmental aspects--England--History--16th century.

Deforestation.

Building, Wooden--Environmental aspects--England--History--16th century.

Building, Wooden.

Theaters--England--History--16th century.

Theaters.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue : evergreen fantasies : Utopia's trees and early modern theatre

Introduction : wood, timber, and theatre in early modern England

"Vanish the tree" : Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay at the Rose

"Come, will this wood take fire?" : The Merry Wives of Windsor in Shakespeare's theatres

"Down with these branches and these loathsome boughs/Of this unfortunate and fatal pine" : the composite Spanish Tragedy at the Fortune

"There's wood enough within" : The Tempest's logs and the resources of Shakespeare's Globe

Epilogue : the afterlives of the Globe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2019)

ISBN:

9781442664180

1442664185

9781442664173

1442664177

OCLC:

841909783