Shakespeare's Ecology of Natural Resources: Transitions and Transformations

Sophie Chiari analyzes how Shakespeare's plays and poems present the transformation of the early modern natural world through environmental shifts and new ecological issues.
Using a range of examples from the Sonnets, Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, Timon of Athens and The Tempest, Chiari's ecopoeticstudy of dramatic language explores Shakespeare's response tothe rise of extractive exploitation in Elizabethan and JacobeanEngland. Chiari expands our understanding of the environment inShakespear...