{"product_id":"shakespeare-beyond-the-green-world-todd-andrew-borlik-9780192866639","title":"Shakespeare Beyond the Green World: Drama and Ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain","description":"Unpicking the ecopolitics of Shakespeare's plays at the Stuart court, \u003cem\u003eShakespeare Beyond the Green World\u003c\/em\u003e establishes that the playwright was remarkably attentive to the environmental issues of his era. As a court dramatist, he designed his plays to captivate a patron deeply involved in both the conservation and exploitation of a burgeoning empire's natural resources. Spurred by James' campaign to unify his kingdoms, the Jacobean Shakespeare ventures beyond the green and pleasant lowlands of England to chart the wild topographies of an expansionist Great Britain: the blasted heath in \u003cem\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/em\u003e, the caves and mines of \u003cem\u003eTimon of Athens\u003c\/em\u003e, the overfished North Sea in \u003cem\u003ePericles\u003c\/em\u003e, the Welsh mountains in \u003cem\u003eCymbeline\u003c\/em\u003e, the Arctic fur country in \u003cem\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e, the fens in \u003cem\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/em\u003e, overcrowded London and empty Ulster in \u003cem\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCoriolanus\u003c\/em\u003e, and the night in \u003cem\u003eAntony and Cleopatra\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/em\u003e. While these plays often simulate a monarch's-eye-view of the natural world, they also reveal that Crown policies were fiercely contested from below. In addition to trekking beyond verdant landscapes, \u003cem\u003eShakespeare Beyond the Green World\u003c\/em\u003e seeks to mitigate the Anglocentric and anthropocentric bias of the archive by putting the plays into conversation with texts in which the subaltern wild growls back. Combining deep dives into environmental history with close readings of Shakespearean wordplay, original typography, and original performance conditions, this study re-wilds the Renaissance stage. It spotlights Shakespeare's tendency to humanize beasts and bestialize allegedly godlike monarchs, debunking fantasies of human exceptionalism. By clarifying how the Jacobean plays expose monarchical dominion as ecological tyranny, this study remains scrupulously historicist while reasserting Shakespearean drama's scorching relevance in the Anthropocene.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Todd Andrew Borlik\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019286663X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192866639\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.40w x 1.20d","brand":"Todd Andrew Borlik","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44069582373119,"sku":"9780192866639","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_38563e0f-1664-4bbe-b98b-9a5e4dfdccd2.jpg?v=1685425457","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shakespeare-beyond-the-green-world-todd-andrew-borlik-9780192866639","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}