"How to Do Things with Birds: The Radical Politics of Nature's Speech Acts in Macbeth"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo567/
Author:
	Swanner, Seth.
Type:
	Book Chapter
Year:
	2020
Publication Information:
	Willard, Reading the Natural World in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Perceptions of the Environment and Ecology, 209–27.
:
	Willard, Reading the Natural World in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Perceptions of the Environment and Ecology
Annotation:
	Shows "how nature's allegiances" in Macbeth "could not unequivocally support state power." Offers ecocritical reading that positions Macbeth in relation to "James's paternal authority" and the gunpowder plot.
	 
Language:
	English
Persons:
	James I
Tags:
	Macbeth, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Summer 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo567