Writing the forest in early modern England : a sylvan pastoral nation / Jeffrey S. Theis.

SeriesMedieval & Renaissance literary studies
Medieval and Renaissance literary studies. ^A489236
Contents The rise of sylvan pastoral: literary form meets forest history -- Shakespeare's green plot: the stage as forest and the forest as stage in As you like it -- Green plots and green plotters: A midsummer night's dream and sylvan struggle -- A border skirmish: community, deer poaching, and spatial transgression in The merry wives of Windsor -- Sylvan pastoral and the civil war: representing national trauma in sylvan terms -- Royalist woods -- John Milton's sylvan pastorals and the theatrical and godly individual.
Abstract "An ecocritical study of forests in early modern English literature, this book is the first to identify 'sylvan pastoral' as a distinct literary form and thus makes an important contribution to the growing field of ecocriticism and the history of environmentalism"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009046462
ISBN9780820704234 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0820704237 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR438.E39 T47 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold