Book excerpt: FC -- Half title -- Arden Shakespeare and Theory -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Communities, collaborations and chaos -- The Process of the book -- Introduction: Ecofeminism and the seeds of time -- Ecofeminism past and present -- Ecofeminism in/and early modern studies -- 1 Ecofeminism matters -- Domesticated beings -- Knowing things -- A substance of subject-objects -- Historical practice and present crisis -- 2 Of mouseholes and housefires: Transcorporeal domesticity -- 'Noysome and pestilent things' -- Pest control: The scratching cat and 'the smallest monstrous mouse' -- (Beyond) pest control: Fleas, flies and other creeping creatures -- Between small and great, soft and fierce: The hearth -- After the fire -- 3 How we know any thing -- Nothing is everything -- Unknowability -- 'Howe'er you come to know it' -- The power of and in uncertainty -- 4 The dynamic object -- The indifference of stone -- Dynamism in the garden -- (Boys as) women as plants -- Petrarch in the produce aisle -- Conclusion: Nature, stir: Ecofeminists in the archive -- Healing nature -- Living nature -- Appendix: Excavating nature -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index