Nardizzi, Vincent Joseph, 1978-

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 --



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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.


Electronic Books.

PR658 / .W663 2013