ECOCRITICISM AND SHAKESPEARE

This award winning book offers the term ecophobia as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of Nature in Shakespeare Engaging close readings with theoretical sophistication makes this book a path breaking contribution to both Shakespearean scholarship and the burgeoning field of ecocriticism