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| DOI | 10.1002/wcc.578 |
| Climatic issues in early modern England: Shakespeare's views of the sky | |
| Chiari S. | |
| 发表日期 | 2019 |
| ISSN | 1757-7780 |
| EISSN | 1757-7779 |
| 卷号 | 10期号:4 |
| 英文摘要 | Climatic issues pervade early modern English drama, and three main reasons may be adduced for this. First, while in the first half of the 16th century Renaissance natural philosophers still felt compelled to acknowledge the accidental nature of weather-related phenomena, in the second part of the century, new beliefs emerged and the dramatization of celestial events allowed for a more immediate access to the natural world. Second, then as now, Shakespeare's “sceptred isle” (Richard II) was often exposed to the wind, the rain and the freezing air, and such characteristics were believed to have a lasting impact on the habits of the English nation. Third, people then had to struggle against the adverse weather conditions characterized by what is now referred to as the “Little Ice Age.” As actor and playwright, Shakespeare saw the sky as a theatrical element. While his so-called festive comedies appear far less festive if we pay attention to their climatic specificities, his tragedies offer interesting insights into the way the playwright associates heavens and humors on the one hand, climate and the planets on the other. I thus argue that climate was for Shakespeare a framing device giving coherence to his playtexts and providing the audience with a natural, elemental, and cosmic background. His interest in the way weather conditions affect human behavior prompted him to modify traditional points of view and, as a result, to foreground Man's ominous capacity to trigger climatic disorders. This article is categorized under: Trans-Disciplinary Perspectives > Humanities and the Creative Arts. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
| 英文关键词 | early modern England; geo-humoralism; Little Ice Age; Shakespeare; sky |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| scopus关键词 | Behavioral research; Cosmology; Meteorology; Philosophical aspects; Adverse weather; Celestial events; Disciplinary perspective; England; geo-humoralism; Human behaviors; Little Ice Age; Shakespeare; Glacial geology; climate variation; human behavior; Little Ice Age; paleoclimate; rainfall; weather; wind; England; United Kingdom |
| 来源期刊 | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/129921 |
| 作者单位 | Department of English Studies, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Chiari S.. Climatic issues in early modern England: Shakespeare's views of the sky[J],2019,10(4). |
| APA | Chiari S..(2019).Climatic issues in early modern England: Shakespeare's views of the sky.Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,10(4). |
| MLA | Chiari S.."Climatic issues in early modern England: Shakespeare's views of the sky".Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 10.4(2019). |
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