Playing Weather in Early Modern England

Theatre's Meteorological Environments

AvChloe Kathleen Preedy

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

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Early modern English theatre encountered and reckoned with weather in myriad ways. Focusing on the period from 1563 to 1625, and using archival records, play-texts, and published accounts to trace theatrical histories of weather and weathering, Chloe Preedy considers how late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century players and playgoers might have reacted to extreme or everyday weather. Playing Weather explores individual playing companies' diverse experiences of and theatrical responses to specific meteorological phenomena: from Leicester's Men and a 1580 earthquake, to drought and the Queen's Men, floods and Strange's/Derby's Men, the King's Men and gale-force winds, and the freezing winters encountered by Lady Elizabeth's Men. Attending to the various imaginative, social, extractive, affective, and economic perspectives hinted at in extant performance records and in plays by authors including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Greene, and Beaumont and Fletcher, this approach reveals early modern theatre's profound ecological - and, especially, meteorological - enmeshment.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2027-01-31
Vikt:250 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:263
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009739214

Utforska kategorier

Teater inom Kultur
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Meteorologi och klimatologi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Chloe Kathleen Preedy an Associate Professor in Early Modern Drama at the University of Exeter. Her publications include Marlowe's Literary Scepticism: Politic Religion and Post-Reformation Polemic (2013), which was awarded the Marlowe Society of America's Roma Gill Prize, and Representing Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576–1609 (2023).

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'Fusing theatre history and forensic climatology, Chloe Preedy's new study reveals that Elizabethan touring companies did not merely weather through the meteorological turbulence of the Little Ice Age: they also simulated it on the stage. Preedy collates travel itineraries with weather diaries and performance records to document how allusions to earthquakes, heat waves, extreme cold, plagues, and floods would have evoked real-world conditions outside the playhouse and raised climate consciousness among early modern playgoers.' Todd Andrew Borlik, Clinical Assistant Teaching Professor, Purdue University, Indianapolis

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: weathering performance; 1. Leicester's Men and the trembling theatre; 2. Summer's heat and the Queen's Men; 3. Derby's Men and the drowned lands; 4. The King's Men and the windy year; 5. Freezing with lady Elizabeth's Men; Conclusion: setting the world on fire.