Journal Article

Shakespeare @ the limits

Smith, Bruce R

2011

Overview

Here feel we not the penalty of Adam, The season's difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say \"This is no flattery\"; these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am. Later, in Orlando's rescue of Oliver from the snake and the tiger, the Forest of Arden turns out to be not the biosphere it first appeared to be - wild, inhospitable to humankind - but something closer to the national park that Duke Senior has imagined * an actual place, the Forest of Arden in Warwickshire, a landscape in which human beings like Corin must eke out a living by hunting or raising sheep * (at the opposite extreme) the locus amoenus of pastoral idylls, a decorative landscape inhabited by the likes of Silvius and Phoebe Each of these five places relates the human to the beyond-human in different ways; each offers a different sort of oikos, a different set dwelling arrangements, a different means of articulating the environment in language.

• Publisher: Associated University Presses,Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Subject: Biosphere / British & Irish literature / Buell, Lawrence / Criticism and interpretation / Dramatists / Ecocriticism / Ecology / English literature / Luhmann, Niklas / Luhmann, Niklas (1927-1998) / Morton, Timothy / Persuasion / Playwrights / Portrayals / Rhetoric / Scenes / Scholars / Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) / Shakespeare, William (English playwright) / Shakespearean comedies / Shakespearean studies / Skin / Study and teaching / Works