Book contents
- Climate and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Climate and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Chapter 1 Literature, Climate, and Time: Between History and Story
- Chapter 2 Atmosphere as Setting, or, ‘Wuthering’ the Anthropocene
- Chapter 3 The Seasons
- Chapter 4 Climatic Agency in the Classical Age
- Chapter 5 Weathering the Storm: Adverse Climates in Medieval Literature
- Chapter 6 The Climate of Shakespeare: Four (or More) Forecasts
- Part II Evolution
- Part III Application
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 6 - The Climate of Shakespeare: Four (or More) Forecasts
from Part I - Origins
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 July 2019
- Climate and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Climate and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Chapter 1 Literature, Climate, and Time: Between History and Story
- Chapter 2 Atmosphere as Setting, or, ‘Wuthering’ the Anthropocene
- Chapter 3 The Seasons
- Chapter 4 Climatic Agency in the Classical Age
- Chapter 5 Weathering the Storm: Adverse Climates in Medieval Literature
- Chapter 6 The Climate of Shakespeare: Four (or More) Forecasts
- Part II Evolution
- Part III Application
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores the relationship between Shakespeare and climate. Taking its inspiration from weather disruptions to the 2017 Shakespeare Association of America conference, it riffs on the tweets that this climatic disturbance generated and the themes they reveal. It deals with the issues of: climate and its material effects on Shakespearean composition and performance, whereby climate and culture may be said to be co-constitutive; the resistance in Shakespeare’s time to codifying climate, in partial acknowledgement of climate’s unpredictability; and thus the extent to which Shakespearean texts portend human and non-human entanglement in the Anthropocene.
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- Climate and Literature , pp. 92 - 108Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019