Sophie Chiari is Professor of Early Modern English Literature at Université Clermont Auvergne, France, where she is also the Director of the research unit ‘Maison des Sciences de l’Homme’.

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• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Shakespearean Spaces of Production in the AnthropoceneChapter 1: The Fabric of Life in the SonnetsGood husbandryBlack pastoralismNature’s agencyOvergreening the SonnetsChapter 2: Crossing the Nature/Culture Divide in Love’s Labour’s LostA locus of empowermentThe commodification of Navarre’s green worldImperialism in the King’s estateA cultural natureChapter 3: Water Industry and Riverine CollapseAn instrumentalist approach to riversFresh water control and diversionDitches and drainage issuesFluid dynamics in ShakespeareChapter 4: From Early Modern Sandscapes to the Making of GlassEarly modern sandscapesTransience and mutabilityThe materiality of sandFrom materiality to ‘bare life’Chapter 5: Under-ground Shakespeare: Transgressing the Limits and Foraging the EarthThe figure of the collierCoal dependency: after wood, mineral fuelExtraction economy: wresting resources from natureConflict landscapes: a wounded earthAt the heart of darknessChapter 6: Plotting, Digging, Burying, or Soil Issues in HamletLand possessionDecay and degenerationSubterranean passagesSearching for inwardnessChapter 7: Business in the Frost in The TempestThe island’s double climateLand useImperialism and extractionExtracting… and buryingChapter 8: White Ecology: The Salt of Early Modern LifeSalt-makingSeasoning and preservingAn imperial commodityPreservation and destruction: from natural to commodified white goldConclusion: Transforming Nature: Life in a Crisis ModeBibliographyIndex

Sophie Chiari is Professor of Early Modern English Literature at Université Clermont Auvergne, France, where she is also the Director of the research unit ‘Maison des Sciences de l’Homme’.

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• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Shakespearean Spaces of Production in the AnthropoceneChapter 1: The Fabric of Life in the SonnetsGood husbandryBlack pastoralismNature’s agencyOvergreening the SonnetsChapter 2: Crossing the Nature/Culture Divide in Love’s Labour’s LostA locus of empowermentThe commodification of Navarre’s green worldImperialism in the King’s estateA cultural natureChapter 3: Water Industry and Riverine CollapseAn instrumentalist approach to riversFresh water control and diversionDitches and drainage issuesFluid dynamics in ShakespeareChapter 4: From Early Modern Sandscapes to the Making of GlassEarly modern sandscapesTransience and mutabilityThe materiality of sandFrom materiality to ‘bare life’Chapter 5: Under-ground Shakespeare: Transgressing the Limits and Foraging the EarthThe figure of the collierCoal dependency: after wood, mineral fuelExtraction economy: wresting resources from natureConflict landscapes: a wounded earthAt the heart of darknessChapter 6: Plotting, Digging, Burying, or Soil Issues in HamletLand possessionDecay and degenerationSubterranean passagesSearching for inwardnessChapter 7: Business in the Frost in The TempestThe island’s double climateLand useImperialism and extractionExtracting… and buryingChapter 8: White Ecology: The Salt of Early Modern LifeSalt-makingSeasoning and preservingAn imperial commodityPreservation and destruction: from natural to commodified white goldConclusion: Transforming Nature: Life in a Crisis ModeBibliographyIndex

Sophie Chiari is Professor of Early Modern English Literature at Université Clermont Auvergne, France, where she is also the Director of the research unit ‘Maison des Sciences de l’Homme’.

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• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Shakespearean Spaces of Production in the AnthropoceneChapter 1: The Fabric of Life in the SonnetsGood husbandryBlack pastoralismNature’s agencyOvergreening the SonnetsChapter 2: Crossing the Nature/Culture Divide in Love’s Labour’s LostA locus of empowermentThe commodification of Navarre’s green worldImperialism in the King’s estateA cultural natureChapter 3: Water Industry and Riverine CollapseAn instrumentalist approach to riversFresh water control and diversionDitches and drainage issuesFluid dynamics in ShakespeareChapter 4: From Early Modern Sandscapes to the Making of GlassEarly modern sandscapesTransience and mutabilityThe materiality of sandFrom materiality to ‘bare life’Chapter 5: Under-ground Shakespeare: Transgressing the Limits and Foraging the EarthThe figure of the collierCoal dependency: after wood, mineral fuelExtraction economy: wresting resources from natureConflict landscapes: a wounded earthAt the heart of darknessChapter 6: Plotting, Digging, Burying, or Soil Issues in HamletLand possessionDecay and degenerationSubterranean passagesSearching for inwardnessChapter 7: Business in the Frost in The TempestThe island’s double climateLand useImperialism and extractionExtracting… and buryingChapter 8: White Ecology: The Salt of Early Modern LifeSalt-makingSeasoning and preservingAn imperial commodityPreservation and destruction: from natural to commodified white goldConclusion: Transforming Nature: Life in a Crisis ModeBibliographyIndex