Green World

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"Green World" is also the title of an album by the band Suicide Machines, "The Green World" is the title of an album by Dar Williams, and "O Green World" is the title of a song by virtual band Gorillaz.

Green World is a literary concept coined by critic Northrop Frye. In some comedies by William Shakespeare, the main characters escape the order of a city for a forested and wild setting adjacent to the city. This natural environment is often described as a green world. It is in this more loosely structured, fantastic environment that issues surrounding social order, romantic relationships, and inter-generational strife, which are a prominent part of the "city world", become resolved, facilitating a return to the normal order.

Mrs. Buehler of Whittier California perfected the method by letting her honers student's write an essay about comparing and contrasting the resently read shakspearian works of art; Twelfth Night & Romeo and Juliet (which we never even read instead we watched a movie)