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The book provides critical insight into ecological performance practices as well as accessible contextual information for ecocriticism, early modern environmental cultures, and theatre-making.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis guide offers:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003ePrimary texts from the early modern period to the present, covering themes such as weather, botany, agriculture, fertility, land rights, animal and human relationships, metamorphosis, and adaptation;\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eA focus on three of the most studied and adapted plays, \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e, as a basis for the wider application of ecological adaptive principles to Shakespeare;\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eA full range of environmental references in each focus play through innovative Eco-Tables;\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eConcise summaries of literary ecocriticism in relation to each key text;\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eSustained attention to performance and creative writing as ecocritical interventions;\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eThe first dedicated chapter in the field offering conceptual and practical resources for staging your own Shakespearean eco-adaptation;\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eA glossary of key terms and links to resources;\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eAn accompanying companion website featuring additional resources.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShakespeare, Ecology and Adaptation: A Practical Guide\u003c\/i\u003e provides a pedagogic pathway and a ready-made syllabus for teachers. 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It brings together scholars of stage, screen, early modern and adaptation studies to examine the work that emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic and considers issues of form, liveness, reception, presence, and community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInterviews with theatre makers and artists illuminate the challenges and benefits of creating new work online, while educators consider how digital tools have facilitated the teaching of Shakespeare through performance. Together, the chapters in this book offer readers the definitive work on the performance and adaptation of Shakespeare online during the pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom The Show Must Go Online, which presented Shakespeare’s First Folio via YouTube, to Creation Theatre and Big Telly’s interactive \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e, which used Zoom as their stage, the book documents the variety and richness of work that emerged during the pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt reveals how, by taking Shakespeare online in new and innovative ways, the theatre industry sparked the evolution of new forms of performance with their own conventions, aesthetics, and notions of liveness. 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