Shakespeare Grounded: Ecocritical Approaches to Shakespearean Drama

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 foref...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grossman, Joanna Rebecah
Other Authors: Greenblatt, Stephen J.
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard.inactive:11744
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13064927