Anthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage
by: William H. Steffen (Author)
Publisher:OUP Oxford
Publication Date: 22 Mar. 2023
Language:English
Print Length:256 pages
ISBN-10:0192871862
ISBN-13:9780192871862
Book Description
Anthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage revises the anthropocentric narrative of early globalization from the perspective of the non-human world in order to demonstrate Nature's agency in determining ecological, economic, and colonial outcomes. It welcomes readers to reimagine theater history in broader terms, and to account for more non-human and atmospheric players in the otherwise anthropocentric history of Shakespearean performance. This book analyses plays, horticultural manuals, cosmetic recipes, Puritan polemics, and travel writing in order to demonstrate how the material practices of the stage both catalyze and resist early forms of globalization in an ecological arena. William Steffen addresses the role of an understudied ecological performance history in determining Shakespeare's iconic cultural status, and models how non-human players have undermined Shakespeare's authoritative role in colonial discourse. Finally, this book makes a celebratory argument for the humanities in the age of climate change, and invites interdisciplinary engagement a research community that is compelled to find strategies for cultivating a hopeful tomorrow amidst unprecedented anthropogenic environmental changes.
About the Author
About the Author William Steffen is an Assistant Professor of English at American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts. His scholarly work, which focuses on the environmental humanities and the early modern English stage, has appeared in Renaissance Drama and in the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. His teaching and research interests focus on travel literature, material culture, Anthropocene studies, and performance studies.
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