ABSTRACT
It may seem like I privilege Marlowe’s and Shakespeare’s perspectives on nature in their time and place only because I have directed their three plays. Yet, the more I read of environmental history and philosophy, the more I am corroborated in saying that they happened to be right on the cusp between medieval and modern notions of nature. I claim that the end of Dream is like an ecotone, and Kershaw argues that all theatre acts as an ecotone, so I will add that Marlowe and Shakespeare lived at an exactly ecotonal moment with an extremely rich mixture of events and people.1
