Looking at European drama through an ecological lens, this book chronicles nature and the environment as primary topics in major plays from ancient to recent times. It focuses on the few, yet well-known plays in which nature is at stake in the action...
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Looking at European drama through an ecological lens, this book chronicles nature and the environment as primary topics in major plays from ancient to recent times. It focuses on the few, yet well-known plays in which nature is at stake in the action or the environment is a dramatic force
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-228) and index
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Greek Tragedy; 3 Aristophanes' The Birds; 4 From Menander to Moralities; 5 Marlowe's Doctor Faustus; 6 Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest; 7 From Renaissance to Romanticism; 8 Ibsen and Chekhov; 9 Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot; 10 Brecht, Beckett, and Beyond: A Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index