THE "UNTASTED NECTOR" OF MUTED ECOLOGY: AN ECOFEMINIST ANALYSIS OF TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

Abstract

The great master Shakespeare remains an over-researched fellow in the postmodern discursive revolution. He is revisited for Marxism, structuralism, feminism, postmodernism. The great classic Shakespeare offers endless capacity for discursive underpinning. But the present research focuses on exploring the character traits of Cressida that peep into the dark recesses of her consciousness, and I take this epistemological depth as a "deep ecology" that comes to life with the collaboration of a very inclusive framework of ecological criticism. The excessive critical works on female characters of Shakespeare start in the 20th century, with the Modern lady Macbeth as Hedda Gabler, Anne Shirley as Anne of Green Gables (1908) appears analogous to Desdemona of Othello and of Romeo and Juliet in defying their fathers and going against the sanctity of popular mores of society. Since Ecocriticism is a relational point that absorbs in its theoretical framework countless diversions, it is much more than a theory by employing this critical ecofeminism framework by Susan Buckingham. (Gender and Environment 2000) as a stance of exploring the unexplored areas of the female character of Cressida, I have named it "muted ecology" (Buckingham ). The research is conducted by employing the textual details contributory to developing the Character of Cressida, the plot, and the sub-plot. The term "untasted Nector" is borrowed from the speech of Troilus.