Shakespeare's representation of weather, climate and environment : the early modern 'fated sky' /

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Author / Creator:Chiari, Sophie, author.
Imprint:Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
©2019
Description:1 online resource (ix, 309 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh scholarship online
Edinburgh scholarship online.
Subject:Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616.
Weather in literature.
Climatology -- In literature.
Temps (Météorologie) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Climatology in literature.
Weather in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12021212
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9781474442541
1474442544
9781474459709
1474459706
9781474442558
1474442552
1474442528
9781474442527
9781474442527
1474442528
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 27, 2019).
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Chiari, Sophie. Shakespeare's representation of weather, climate and environment. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019] 9781474442527
Standard no.:9781474442527
Table of Contents:
  • 'We see / the seasons alter': climate change in A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • '[T]he fire is grown too hot!': Romeo and Juliet and the dog days
  • 'Winter and rough weather': Arden's sterile climate
  • Othello: Shakespeare's A bout de souffle
  • 'The pelting of [a] pitiless storm': thunder and lightning in King Lear
  • Clime and slime in Anthony and Cleopatra
  • The I/eye of the storm: Prospero's tempest