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Author:   Sophie Chiari (University of Clermont Auvergne, France)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   The Arden Shakespeare
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9781350559066

ISBN 10:   1350559067
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   11 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Shakespearean Spaces of Production in the Anthropocene Chapter 1: The Fabric of Life in the Sonnets Good husbandry Black pastoralism Nature’s agency Overgreening the Sonnets Chapter 2: Crossing the Nature/Culture Divide in Love’s Labour’s Lost A locus of empowerment The commodification of Navarre’s green world Imperialism in the King’s estate A cultural nature Chapter 3: Water Industry and Riverine Collapse An instrumentalist approach to rivers Fresh water control and diversion Ditches and drainage issues Fluid dynamics in Shakespeare Chapter 4: From Early Modern Sandscapes to the Making of Glass Early modern sandscapes Transience and mutability The materiality of sand From materiality to ‘bare life’ Chapter 5: Under-ground Shakespeare: Transgressing the Limits and Foraging the Earth The figure of the collier Coal dependency: after wood, mineral fuel Extraction economy: wresting resources from nature Conflict landscapes: a wounded earth At the heart of darkness Chapter 6: Plotting, Digging, Burying, or Soil Issues in Hamlet Land possession Decay and degeneration Subterranean passages Searching for inwardness Chapter 7: Business in the Frost in The Tempest The island’s double climate Land use Imperialism and extraction Extracting… and burying Chapter 8: White Ecology: The Salt of Early Modern Life Salt-making Seasoning and preserving An imperial commodity Preservation and destruction: from natural to commodified white gold Conclusion: Transforming Nature: Life in a Crisis Mode Bibliography Index

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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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