scholarly journals Shakespeare in Yosemite

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-28
Author(s):  
Katherine Steele Brokaw ◽  
Paul Prescott
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Yosemite National Park ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
General Audience ◽  
Cultural Currency ◽  
Applied Theatre ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
Earth Day

Shakespeare in Yosemite, founded in 2017, consists of an annual outdoor production of Shakespeare in Yosemite National Park on the weekend closest to World Earth Day and Shakespeare’s birthday. The productions are site-specific and heavily adapted for a general audience; admission is free. In this article, the co-founders describe the origins and aims of the festival within the contexts of applied theatre, eco-criticism and the American tradition of free outdoor Shakespeare. In describing the festival’s inaugural show – a collage piece that counterpointed Shakespeare’s words with those of early environmentalist John Muir – we make the case for leveraging Shakespeare’s cultural currency to play a part (however small or unknowable) in encouraging environmental awareness and activism.

The New River Updated

2019 ◽  
pp. 113-128
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
National Park ◽  
Yosemite National Park ◽  
Direct Response ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Charles Ives ◽  
Hetch Hetchy

In 1911 Charles Ives wrote “The New River,” a song unique among his works for its outspoken environmentalist stance. Composed in direct response to the diversion of waters from Ives's beloved Housatonic River to feed New York City reservoirs and plans for constructing a dam, the song also captured widespread national outrage over the Hetch Hetchy Dam being built at the same time through Yosemite National Park. Combining transcendentalist understandings of nature with more contemporary arguments to save Hetch Hetchy published by Robert Underwood Johnson and John Muir, Ives's song sounds his belief “the fabric of life weaves itself whole.”

Tree and shrub measurements in Stanislaus National Forest and Yosemite National Park, collected in 1911 and 2005–2013

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon M. Collins ◽  
Danny L. Fry ◽  
Jamie M. Lydersen ◽  
Richard G. Everett ◽  
Scott L. Stephens
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Yosemite National Park

Staircase Falls Rockfall on December 26, 2003, and Geologic Hazards at Curry Village, Yosemite National Park, California

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald F. Wieczorek ◽  
James B. Snyder ◽  
James W. Borchers ◽  
Paola Reichenbach
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Yosemite National Park ◽  
Geologic Hazards

IMPENDING LOSS OF LITTLE ICE AGE GLACIERS IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg M. Stock ◽  
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Robert S. Anderson ◽  
Thomas H. Painter ◽  
Brian Henn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Little Ice Age ◽  
National Park ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
Yosemite National Park

A GEOLOGIST-CLIMBER'S PERSPECTIVE ON THE MANY FACES OF HALF DOME, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger L. Putnam ◽  
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Greg M. Stock ◽  
Allen F. Glazner ◽  
John M. Bartley
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Yosemite National Park ◽  
The Many
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