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Shakespeare on the ecological surface

"Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface uses the concept of the 'surface' to examine the relationship between contemporary performance and ecocriticism. Each section looks, in turn, at the "surfaces" of slick, slime, soil, steam, skin, silk and stage to build connections between ecocriticism, activism, critical theory, Shakespeare, and performance. While the word 'surface' was never used in Shakespeare's works, Liz Oakley-Brown shows how thinking about Shakespearean surfaces helps readers explore the cultural politics of Elizabethan and Jacobean Culture. She also draws surprising parallels with our current political and ecological concerns. The book explores how Shakespeare uses ecological surfaces to help understand other types of surfaces in his plays and poems: characters' public-facing selves; contact zones between characters and the natural world; surfaces upon which words are written; and physical surfaces upon which plays are staged. This book will be an illuminating read for anyone studying Shakespeare, early modern culture, ecocriticism, performance, and activism"--

Ovid and the cultural politics of translation in early modern England

In "Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England", Liz Oakley-Brown considers English versions of the Metamorphoses - a poem concerned with translation and transformation on a multiplicity of levels - as important sites of social and historical difference from the fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. Through the exploration of a range of canonical and marginal texts, from Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" to women's embroideries of Ovidian myths, Oakley-Brown argues that translation is central to the construction of national and gendered identities.

Shakespeare and the translation of identity in early modern England

Featuring contributions by established and upcoming scholars, Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England explores the ways in which Shakespearean texts engage in the social and cultural politics of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century translation practices. Framed by the editor's introduction and an Afterword by Ton Hoenselaars, the authors in this collection offer new perspectives on translation and the fashioning of religious, national and gendered identities in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest.This title is an exploration of the ways in which Shakespearean texts engage in the social and cultural politics of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century translation practices. During the last twenty-five years or so, critical and theoretical interest in translation and the construction of early modern identities has gathered momentum. Featuring contributions by established and upcoming scholars, "Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England" explores the ways in which Shakespearean texts engage in the social and cultural politics of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century translation practices. Framed by the editor's introduction which takes "Venus and Adonis" as a starting point for the collection and an Afterword by Ton Hoenselaars, the authors offer new perspectives on translation and the fashioning of religious, national and gendered identities in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Hamlet", "Macbeth", "Coriolanus", and, "The Tempest". This title contains major scholarly research monographs in Shakespeare Studies from Continuum.

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