Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Scott, Charlotte.

Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Description

viii, 257 p.; 23 p.

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.

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
• Nature in literature
• Agriculture in literature

Bibliography (note)

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

Call Number

JFD 14-1993

ISBN

• 9780199685080
• 0199685088

OCLC

833404673

Author

Scott, Charlotte.

Title

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

Imprint

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliography

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

Research Call Number

JFD 14-1993