Wooden Os : : Shakespeare's Theatres and England's Trees / / Vin Nardizzi.
Wooden Os is a study of the presence of trees and wood in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries - in plays set within forests, in character dialogue, and in props and theatre constructions. Vin Nardizzi connects these themes to the dependence, and surprising ecological impact, of London�...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Evergreen Fantasies: Utopia's Trees and Early Modern Theatre
- Introduction: Wood, Timber, and Theatre in Early Modern England
- 1. "Vanish the tree": Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay at the Rose
- 2. "Come, will this wood take fire?" The Merry Wives of Windsor in Shakespeare's Theatres
- 3. "Down with these branches and these loathsome boughs / Of this unfortunate and fatal pine": The Composite Spanish Tragedy at the Fortune
- 4. "There's wood enough within": The Tempest's Logs and the Resources of Shakespeare's Globe
- Epilogue: The Afterlives of the Globe
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index