The Wild Man on the English Stage

Goldsmith, Robert H.

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“…Fear of the outcome of humanwild miscegenation is represented by the wodewose (wild man) of cultural lore, who, from the sixteenth century on, is a fearsomely repulsive creature with cannibalistic and lecherous tendencies (Goldsmith, 1958). Chronicles of human children reared by nonhuman animals reveal the ambivalent expressions of loathing and desire toward the wild in their being viewed as both threatening to, and revealing of, human nature (Benzaquén, 2006;Newton, 2002).…”

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Babes in the Woods: Wilderness Aesthetics in Children's Stories and Toys, 1830-1915

Varga

2009

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Representations of nonhuman wild animals in children's stories and toys underwent dramatic transformation over the years . During the earlier part of that period, wild animals were presented to children as being savage and dangerous, and that it was necessary for them to be killed or brutally constrained. In the 1890s, an animalcentric discourse emerged in Nature writing, along with an animal-human symbiosis in scientifi c child study that highlighted childhood innocence, resulting in a valuing of wild animals based upon their similarity to humans. Th is article will describe the aesthetic devices of children's stories and play materials in relation to the dominant, emerging, and residual ideas about the wild communicated by adults to children through these means.

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Babes in the Woods: Wilderness Aesthetics in Children's Stories and Toys, 1830-1915

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The Shakespearean Forest

Barton¹

2017

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The Shakespearean Forest, Anne Barton's final book, uncovers the pervasive presence of woodland in early modern drama, revealing its persistent imaginative power. The collection is representative of the startling breadth of Barton's scholarship: ranging across plays by Shakespeare (including Titus Andronicus, As You Like It, Macbeth, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Timon of Athens) and his contemporaries (including Jonson, Dekker, Lyly, Massinger and Greene), it also considers court pageants, treatises on forestry and chronicle history. Barton's incisive literary analysis characteristically pays careful attention to the practicalities of performance, and is supplemented by numerous illustrations and a bibliographical essay exploring recent scholarship in the field. Prepared for publication by Hester Lees-Jeffries, featuring a Foreword by Adrian Poole and an Afterword by Peter Holland, the book explores the forest as a source of cultural and psychological fascination, embracing and illuminating its mysteriousness.

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The Wild Man in the Forest

Barton¹

2017

The Shakespearean Forest

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The Wild Man on the English Stage

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Babes in the Woods: Wilderness Aesthetics in Children's Stories and Toys, 1830-1915

Babes in the Woods: Wilderness Aesthetics in Children's Stories and Toys, 1830-1915

The Shakespearean Forest

The Wild Man in the Forest

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