Beginning with deforestation, Martin traces an environmental narrative which shows Shakespeares remarkable sensitivity to the changing consumer practices in early modern England ... Martin retains his attention on historicity, including enclosures, changing resources, sea-coal, saltpetre and wood, as well as shifting practices in land management, food production, exploitation and regeneration of the English landscape. The natural world is relentlessly animated ... Read moreand articulated through human responses to it, and Martins book engages with these discourses at a conceptual as well as practical level.
Charlotte Scott, Shakespeare Survey
The work Martin has done reconstructing aspects of Renaissance deforestation, husbandry, and the relationship between militarization and the environment, among many other things, is truly impressive. His book should be consulted by anyone working on environment and ecology in the early modern period.
Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
In sum, Shakespeare and Ecology is the very best introductory volume that we now have on the topic, and I expect that we will be engaging it in our research and in our teaching for some time to come.
Vin Nardizzi, Renaissance Quarterly
I can think of no better way to celebrate [Shakespeare's] 400th anniversary than reading this book.
Horatio Morpurgo, Resurgence & Ecologist
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