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

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Edinburgh scholarship onlinePublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 309 pages) : illustrationsISBN:
  • 9781474442541
  • 9781474459709
  • 9781474442558
  • 9781474442527
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: Shakespeare's representation of weather, climate and environment. Druck-Ausgabe Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]DDC classification:
  • 822.3/3 23
LOC classification:
  • PR3039
  • PR3069.W43
Online resources:
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
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 phenomenaPPN: PPN: 1916259820Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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