Shakespeare and the Environment: A Dictionary
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- ISBN 9781350110465
- Weight: 840g
- Dimensions: 160 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 24 Feb 2022
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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While our physical surroundings fashion our identities, we, in turn, fashion the natural elements in which or with which we live. This complex interaction between the human and the non-human already resonated in Shakespeare’s plays and poems. As details of the early modern supra- and infra-celestial landscape feature in his works, this dictionary brings to the fore Shakespeare’s responsiveness to and acute perception of his ‘environment’ and it covers the most significant uses of words related to this concept. In doing so, it also examines the epistemological changes that were taking place at the turn of the 17th century in a society which increasingly tried to master nature and its elements. For this reason, the intersections between the natural and the supernatural receive special emphasis. All in all, this dictionary offers a wide variety of resources that takes stock of the ‘green criticism’ that recently emerged in Shakespeare studies and provides a clear and complete overview of the idea, imagery and language of environment in the canon.
Sophie Chiari is Professor of early modern literature at Université Clermont Auvergne, France. She specializes in Shakespeare studies and is the author of Shakespeare's Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment: The Early Modern 'Fated Sky' (2018). She has edited or coedited several collections of essays including Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare (2017) and Freedom and Censorship in Early Modern English Literature (2018).
