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Shakespeare’S Midsummer Fairies: Shadows And Shamen Of The Forest, Patricia, Roy
Shakespeare’S Midsummer Fairies: Shadows And Shamen Of The Forest, Patricia, Roy
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Recent interest in environmental crises has inspired literary critics to consider how the history of ideas shapes our current ecological debates. Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream sets the stage for assessing how Renaissance attitudes towards nature have influenced current ideologies. While the play appears to be a fantasy, it reveals a relationship with nature, both physically and figuratively. The play's excursion into the woods shows an attempt to heal human relationships. Shakespeare's use of the imagery of nature argues in favor of the green world, for it is a world inhabited by shadows and shamen -- or, as Shakespeare calls …