Nature's Stage and Human Players. Ecological Explorations in Shakespearean Plays

Seminar paper from the year 2023 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Augsburg (Literaturwissenschaft), course: Literaturwissenschaft Vertiefungsseminar - Literary Ecology, language: English, abstract: In the following paper, the relationship between man and nature will be analyzed and explained based on three literary works by Shakespeare: 'The Tempest', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'MacBeth'. Climate crises and environmental catastrophes have been terms that have preoccupied politicians, scientists and people in general for several years now. Accordingly, people often ask themselves to what extent the environment will change life in the future. In order to be able to solve this problem at all, man must first reflect and rethink the relationship with the environment since the relationship with the environment is ultimately to be seen as a consequence for the environmental problems that are current today. Due to the complexity of the concept of nature and the ambiguous definition of the term, different constellations exist according the relationship between humans and nature...