Wooden Os Shakespeare's theatres and England's trees /
Vin Nardizzi.
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (xii, 205 pages) illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prologue: Evergreen Fantasies: Utopia's Trees and Early Modern Theatre -- Introduction: Wood, Timber, and Theatre in Early Modern England -- 1 "Vanish the tree": Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay at the Rose -- 2 "Come, will this wood take fire" The Merry Wives of Windsor in Shakespeare's Theatres -- 3 "Down with these branches and these loathsome boughs / 4 "There's wood enough within": The Tempest's Logs and the Resources of Shakespeare's Globe -- Epilogue: The Afterlives of the Globe. Of this unfortunate and fatal pine": The Composite Spanish Tragedy at the Fortune --
9781442664173
English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 Trees in literature. Forests in literature. Deforestation--Environmental aspects--History--England--16th century. Building, Wooden--Environmental aspects--History--England--16th century. Theaters--History--England--16th century.