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Wooden Os : Shakespeare's theatres and England's trees / Vin Nardizzi.
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Author
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Date published
2013
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Publisher
Toronto ; London : University of Toronto Press, c2013.
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Subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Knowledge Natural history.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
Building, Wooden Environmental aspects England History 16th century
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
Deforestation Environmental aspects England History 16th century
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Accession number
8341001
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Class
65.14/NAR
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ISBN
9781442646001
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Physical description
xii, 205 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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., Contents: 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
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