Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576-1609

ISBN-13: 9780192843326 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str.

CHLOE KATHLE PREEDY

Recenzje

Aerial Environments is an exceptional achievement: an authoritative study of an underappreciated topic that is of tremendous and growing significance given the prevalence of open-air Shakespeare and the need to harness the power of drama to combat climate change and air pollution.

O autorze

Chloe Kathleen Preedy is a Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare & Renaissance Literature at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Marlowe's Literary Scepticism: Politic Religion and Post-Reformation Polemic (2013), which won the Roma Gill Prize in 2015. Her current publication projects include a co-edited special issue of Performance Research on the air's presence in contemporary performance; a co-edited volume on Thomas Nashe's authorial performances; and, with Professor William Sherman, a forthcoming Arden edition of Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta. She is a principal investigator for the AHRC-funded project Atmospheric Theatre: Open-Air Performance and the Environment (2018-21).