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Grossman, Joanna Rebecah.

Shakespeare Grounded: Ecocritical Approaches to Shakespearean Drama.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Shakespeare Grounded: Ecocritical Approaches to Shakespearean Drama.
Author:	Grossman, Joanna Rebecah.
Description:	259 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-03(E), Section: A.
Notes:	Adviser: Stephen Greenblatt.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-03A(E).
Subject:	English literature.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3644985
ISBN:	9781321334593

Shakespeare Grounded: Ecocritical Approaches to Shakespearean Drama.
Grossman, Joanna Rebecah.

Shakespeare Grounded: Ecocritical Approaches to Shakespearean Drama. - 259 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-03(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Using the "Great Chain of Being" -- which was integral to the Elizabethan understanding of the world -- as a starting point, this dissertation examines the sometimes startling ways in which Shakespeare's plays invert this all-encompassing hierarchy. At times, plants come to the forefront as the essential life form that others should emulate to achieve a kind of utopian ideal. Still other times, the soil and rocks themselves become the logical extension of a desire to remove man from the pinnacle of earthly creation. Over the course of this project, I explore plays that emphasize a) alternative, non-mammalian modes of propagation, b) the desire to sink the human body into the earth (or, at a minimum, man's closeness to the ground), and c) the imagined lives of flora and fauna, while underscoring man's kinship with myriad organisms. In many of the works explored, a modern vision of materiality comes to the forefront, presenting a stark contrast to the deeply held religious views of the day. In flipping the ladder upside down, Shakespeare entices his reader to confront inherent weaknesses in human and animal biology, and ultimately to question why man cannot seek a better model from the lowly ground upon which he treads.

ISBN: 9781321334593Subjects--Topical Terms:

181224
English literature.

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