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Shakespeares Nature: From Cultivation to Culture

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Shakespeares Nature offers the first sustained account of the impact of the language and practice of husbandry on Shakespeares 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 Shakespeares 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 Shakespeares time shaped a new language of social relations. Beginning with an examination of the rise in the production of early modern printed husbandry manuals, Shakespeares 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. In a series of close readings of specific plays and poems, this book explains how cultivation forms and develops social and economic value systems, and how the early modern imagination was dependent
on metaphors of investment, nurture and growth. By tracing this language of intervention and creation in Shakespeares work, this book reveals a fundamental discourse in the development of early modern social, political and personal values.

Author: Charlotte C. Scott

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

Pages: 272

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Publication Date: 2014-02-19