ABSTRACT
It seems preposterous to try to apply an undefined -ism that has no clear methodology or theoretical approach—indeed, with little more than a second-order “point of view” unifying it, according to one critic 1 —to the most heavily annotated canon in literary studies. Yet, ecocritical Shakespeares appear to have become something of a thriving business. 2 Since 1998, when what seems the first instance where the words “Shakespeare” and “ecocriticism” emerge together, 3 the field of “Shakespeare and ecocriticism” has become flooded with scholarship.
