1st Edition
The Experience of Disaster in Early Modern English Literature
General Introduction
Sophie Chiari
PART I. Extreme Conditions
Chapter 1
‘Shakespeare, Natural Disaster, and Atmospheric Phenomena’
Geraldo U. de Sousa
Chapter 2
‘Frozen: English Journeys to the End of the World’
Sophie Lemercier-Goddard
Chapter 3
‘Musical Representations of Natural Phenomena in Early Modern English Madrigals’
Chantal Schütz
PART II. Tempestuous Skies
Chapter 4
‘Man in Stormy Weathers in the Age of Shakespeare’
Danièle Berton-Charrière
Chapter 5
‘The Storms of Othello in 1613’
David M. Bergeron
Chapter 6
‘Francis Bacon and the Mastery of the Winds’
Angus Vine
PART III. Biblical Calamities
Chapter 7
‘The Plague of Gnats in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries’
Sophie Chiari
Chapter 8
‘Michael Drayton and the Invention of the Disaster Epic: Eco-catastrophe in the Late Poems’
Todd A. Borlik
Chapter 9
‘John Ray’s Inquiry into the Future Dissolution of the World in The Miscellaneous Discourses’
Michaël Popelard
Coda
‘Climate Change and the Postsecular in Paul Schrader’s First Reformed’
John Gillies
Biography
Sophie Chiari is a tenured professor of early modern English Literature at Université Clermont Auvergne. She holds a doctoral degree from Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3, France, and she received her accreditation to supervise research from Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle. Among her recently published collections of essays are Freedom and Censorship in Early Modern English Literature (2018) and Performances at Court in the Age of Shakespeare, co-edited with John Mucciolo (2019). Her monograph Shakespeare’s Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment, was published in 2019 and her latest book, entitled Shakespeare and the Environment: A Dictionary, was published in early 2022.
