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- Climate and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Climate and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Evolution
- Chapter 7 Weather and Climate in the Age of Enlightenment
- Chapter 8 British Romanticism and the Global Climate
- Chapter 9 The Literary Politics of Transatlantic Climates
- Chapter 10 Climate and Race in the Age of Empire
- Chapter 11 Ethereal Women: Climate and Gender from Realism to the Modernist Novel
- Chapter 12 Planetary Climates: Terraforming in Science Fiction
- Chapter 13 The Mountains and Death: Revelations of Climate and Land in Nordic Noir
- Part III Application
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 7 - Weather and Climate in the Age of Enlightenment
from Part II - Evolution
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
- Part II Evolution
- Chapter 7 Weather and Climate in the Age of Enlightenment
- Chapter 8 British Romanticism and the Global Climate
- Chapter 9 The Literary Politics of Transatlantic Climates
- Chapter 10 Climate and Race in the Age of Empire
- Chapter 11 Ethereal Women: Climate and Gender from Realism to the Modernist Novel
- Chapter 12 Planetary Climates: Terraforming in Science Fiction
- Chapter 13 The Mountains and Death: Revelations of Climate and Land in Nordic Noir
- 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. 111 - 127Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019