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Author Chiari, Sophie, author.

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

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 309 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Edinburgh scholarship online
Edinburgh scholarship online.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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 phenomena.
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 27, 2019).
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxx96qPfyhwWrJChP9kXd
Weather in literature.
Climatology -- In literature.
Temps (Météorologie) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Climatology in literature
Weather in literature
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Chiari, Sophie. Shakespeare's representation of weather, climate and environment. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019] 9781474442527 (OCoLC)1039921832
ISBN 9781474442541 (electronic book)
1474442544 (electronic book)
9781474459709 (electronic book)
1474459706 (electronic book)
9781474442558 (electronic publication)
1474442552 (electronic publication)
1474442528
9781474442527
9781474442527 (hardcover)
1474442528 (hardcover)
Standard No. 9781474442527
DKDLA 820120-katalog:9910052321905765

 
    
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