This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of 'Nature' in Shakespeare.

Simon C. Estok is an associate Professor and Junior Fellow (2011-2014) in the Department of English at Sungkyunkwan University.

Doing ecocriticism with Shakespeare Dramatizing Environmental Fear: King Lear's Unpredictable Natural Spaces and Domestic Places Coriolanus and ecocriticism: a study in confluent theorizing Pushing the limits of ecocriticism: environment and social resistance in 2 Henry VI and 2 Henry IV Monstrosity in Othello and Pericles: race, gender, and ecophobia Disgust, metaphor, women: ecophobic confluences Staging exotica and ecophobia The ecocritical unconscious: early modern sleep as 'go-between' Coda: ecocriticism on the lip of a lion