Shakespeare's Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment: The Early Modern Fated Sky

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This monograph explores the importance of weather and changing skies in early modern England while acknowledging the fact that traditional representations and religious beliefs still fashioned people's relations to meteorological phenomena.

Author(s): Sophie Chiari
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2019

Language: English

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Textual Note
Introduction
Chapter 1 ‘We see / The seasons alter’: Climate Change in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Chapter 2 ‘[T]he fire is grown too hot!’: Romeo and Juliet and the Dog Days
Chapter 3 ‘Winter and rough weather’: Arden’s Sterile Climate
Chapter 4 Othello: Shakespeare’s À bout de souffle
Chapter 5 ‘The pelting of [a] pitiless storm’: Thunder and Lightning in King Lear
Chapter 6 Clime and Slime in Anthony and Cleopatra
Chapter 7 The I/Eye of the Storm: Prospero’s Tempest
Conclusion: ‘Under heaven’s eye’
Bibliography
Index