Were humans the only political creatures in early modernity? Clearly not, answers a wave of work in animal studies. the “politicized” topographies of female bodies of Lavinia and Tamora that oscillate between the two. a “feminized” topography of Rome as the lady, 2. Spatialization/naturalization of the female body in Titus Andronicus offers three interlocking imaginary topographies: 1. This paper discusses the definition of the forest as a space regulated by the repetitive act of appropriation on the part of the royal authority as well as the correspondences between the rhetoric of forest possession and the codification of another locus communis for the political use of nature, i.e. Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik, Jagiellonian University (Poland) I touched on this topic in my contribution to the cluster in Postmedieval, entitled “Water Love,” and for this seminar I want to make explicit the violent love of Shakespeare’s tempests.Ģ. Too often, ecocritics celebrate the agency of non-human matter yet today the powers of earth, air, fire, and water threaten and injure human populations more strongly and randomly than ever. In her afterword to “Ecomaterialism,” a cluster of essays in Postmedieval (2013), Jane Bennett urges us to engage vibrant matter’s potential threats to human life, its violence. Sharon O’Dair, University of Alabama Tuscaloosa (USA) Putting a Tempest in a Teapot: Physicalizing the Storm in Shakespearean Performanceġ. Doyle Ott, Sonoma State University (USA).Shakespeare before the Metabolic Rift: Land, Labor and Ecocriticism David Morrow, College of Saint Rose (USA).Estok, Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea)

Malvina Aparicio, Argentine Catholic University / University of the Salvador (Argentina).

“The Something that Nature Gave Me”: the Role of Nature in Shaping the Genius through the Prism of Shakespeare’s Biographies

Viktoriia Marinesko, Classic Private University, Zaporizhzhia (Ukraine).

The Bee and the Sovereign: Segments, Swarms, and the Early Modern Multitude in Coriolanus “Map of Woe”: The Topography of Female Body in Titus Andronicus

Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik, Jagiellonian University (Poland).

Sharon O’Dair, University of Alabama Tuscaloosa (USA).Malvina Isabel Aparicio (Argentina) Participants Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication.Direction Générale de l'Enseignement Supérieur.Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies.European Shakespeare Research Association.Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur.

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