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Chapter 7 - Weather and Climate in the Age of Enlightenment

from Part II - Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2019

By
Jan Golinski
Edited by
Adeline Johns-Putra
Adeline Johns-Putra
Affiliation:
University of Surrey
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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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AnthropoceneclimateWilliam ShakespeareLittle Ice AgeKing LearA Midsummer Night’s DreamMacbethThe Winter’s Tale
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Climate and Literature , pp. 111 - 127
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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