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).

'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

• 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.

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).

'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

• 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.

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).

'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

• 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.