Ecocritical Shakespeare

Introduction: warbling invaders / Dan Brayton and Lynne Bruckner

Contexts for reading

Vermin and parasites: Shakespeare's animal architectures / Karen Raber

Ecology of self in Midsummer night's dream / Robert N. Watson

Gaia and the great chain of being / Gabriel Egan

Is it Shakespearean ecocriticism if it isn't Presentist? / Sharon O'Dair

Flora, fauna, weather, water

"The Nobleness of life": Spontaneous generation and excremental life in Anthony and Cleopatra / Edward J. Geisweidt

The well-hung shrew / J. A. Shea and Paul Yachnin

Felling Falstaff in Windsor Park / Vin Nardizzi

It's all about the gillyvors: engendering art and nature in The Winter's Tale / Jennifer Munroe

Tongues in the Storm: Shakespeare, ecological crisis, and the resources of genre / Steve Mentz

Shakespeare and the global ocean / Dan Brayton

Presentism and pedagogy

An ecocritic's Macbeth / Richard Kerridge

Ophelia's plants and the death of violets / Rebecca Laroche

Teaching Shakespeare in the ecotone / Lynne Bruckner

Afterword: Ecocriticism on the lip of a lion / Simon C. Estok.