The Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Weather

Spectacle and Climatological Reckoning in English Drama
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-71242-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 163 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 346 g

While British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visual spectacle and settings allow the audience to grasp threats to environments across the globe. In plays from 1682-1799, examines how the “little world” of the theatre enables the British to conceptualize and experience how scientific and technological innovations, industrialization, imperial enterprises, and the increasing scale and reach of the British military affect the climate. In fact, the book attributes the drama of Aphra Behn, Susanna Centlivre, Joseph Addison, Nahum Tate, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and other playwrights as pivotal to maintaining an audience’s discernment of climatological processes and variability.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Renen, Denys van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 - Introduction.- Chapter 2 - “The Rareness of the Figures”: Air and Accessibility in Aphra Behn’s and Elkanah Settle’s .- Chapter 3 - “Storming at Heav’n and Thee!”: Ecological Wastelands in Addison’s .- Chapter 4 - “I’ll have none of these airs”: The West Indies and British Inertia in Mary Pix and John Gay.- Chapter 5 - “Art against art”: Sentimentality, Mid-Century Drama, and the North American Crises”.- Chapter 6 - “A Winter Drama”: Decolonizing South America and Environmental Restoration in Sheridan’s Chapter 7 - Epilogue : “‘Lucretius Englisht’: Nahum Tate’s Ecophobic Adaptation of Shakespeare’s 

Über Autor(innen)

Denys Van Renen is Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, USA, and the 2023-2024 Distinguished Professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy. His previous three books include , , and Van Renen has also co-edited a collection, .