Shakespeare and the Environment: A Dictionary

"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"--

List of contents

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Series Editor's Preface
Abbreviations
List of Headwords
Introduction
A-Z
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Sophie Chiari is Professor of early modern literature at Université Clermont Auvergne, France. She specialises 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).Sandra Clark is Professor Emeritus of Renaissance Literature, Birkbeck, University of London, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Product details

• Authors: Sophie Chiari, Chiari Sophie
• Assisted by: Sandra Clark (Editor of the series), Clark Sandra (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.02.2022
• EAN: 9781350110465
• ISBN: 978-1-350-11046-5
• No. of pages: 456
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Arden Shakespeare; Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, REFERENCE / Dictionaries, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Dictionaries, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, Subject dictionaries