The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Found a better price? Request a price match
The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Offers an ecocritical approach to understanding dress in early modern plays and performance
This volume posits that clothing in the early modern period was conceived of as the prime interface between the human body and its multiple environments. Both a second skin and a human-made artefact, dress can indeed be considered as the most immediate site for the elaboration of any sort of ecology, in its etymological sense of a 'discourse' of the oikos, or of the place we inhabit. This collection shows how early modern English literature, and drama in particular, interrogates the crucial relationship between humans and the world that surrounds them in its staging of dress. It also argues that the theatrical productions of the time derived much of their creative energy from this process, by which climates and their effects were translated and embodied through dress on the mediating stage. Its various chapters study early modern clothes in their ecosystems and challenge the inside/outside, natural/artificial and body/environment binaries.
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture
View allBook Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781399522137
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 May 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Illustration: 11 black and white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations
Contributors:
- Edited by Sophie Chiari
- Edited by Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 296
About the Author
Sophie Chiari is Professor of Early Modern English Literature at Universitรฉ Clermont Auvergne, France, where she is also the Director of the โMaison des Sciences de lโHomme de Clermont-Ferrandโ, a research institute encompassing the humanities and social sciences. A member of the IHRIM research team, she has edited or coedited various collections of essays including Performances at Court in the Age of Shakespeare (coedited with John Mucciolo, 2019) and The Experience of Disaster in Early Modern English Literature (2022). Her current research focuses on ecocritical issues in Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Her most recent works are Shakespeareโs Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment (2019) and Shakespeare and the Environment. A Dictionary (2022). Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise is Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Cultural Studies at the Universitรฉ Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris, France), where she also directs the Epistรฉmรจ research group within the PRISMES research centre. She was awarded a Research Fellowship by the Institut Universitaire for a project on the interconnectedness of poetic and material circulations within Early Modern Europe (2016โ2021). Originally a specialist of poetry and religious history, she was the 2011 recipient of the SAES (French Society for English Studies) special research prize for her monograph on George Herbert, Le Verbe fait image (2010). She currently serves as the vice-president of the Sociรฉtรฉ Franรงaise Shakespeare (the French Shakespeare association). Her research profile is interdisciplinary, publishing across genres and adopting a trans-regional perspective as well as a material approach to her analysis of Elizabethan and Jacobean poetry and drama, which are the centre of gravity of her work. She co-edited the volume of Shakespeareโs poetry in French translation for the Plรฉiade, Gallimard (2021), is currently working on a new French edition of Twelfth Night for Gallimard, and has recently translated Marloweโs Massacre at Paris with Christine Sukic (forthcoming with Garnier Classiques).
More from Arts & Culture
View allWhy buy from us?
Book Hero is not a chain store or big box retailer. We're an independent 100% NZ-owned business on a mission to help more Kiwis rediscover a love of books and reading!
Service & Delivery
Our warehouse in Auckland holds over 80,000 books, toys, board games and puzzles in-stock so you're not waiting for your order to arrive from overseas.
Auckland Bookstore
We're primarily an online store, but for your convenience you can pick up your order for free from our bookstore, which is right next door to our warehouse in Hobsonville.
Our Gifting Service
Books make wonderful thoughtful gifts and we're here to help with gift-wrapping and cards. We can even send your gift directly to your loved one.
