Awards

• Winner of 2016 Shakespeare's Globe Book Award 2016 (UK)

Overview

Winner of the 2016 Shakespeare's Globe Book AwardWhether the apocalyptic storm of King Lear or the fleeting thunder imagery of Hamlet, the shipwrecks of the comedies or the thunderbolt of Pericles, there is an instance of storm in every one of Shakespeare's plays. This is the first comprehensive study of Shakespeare's storms. With chapters on Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Pericles and The Tempest, the book traces the development of the storm over the second half of the playwright's career, when Shakespeare took the storm to new extremes. It explains the storm effects used in early modern playhouses, and how they filter into Shakespeare's dramatic language. Interspersed are chapters on thunder, lightning, wind and rain, in which the author reveals Shakespeare's meteorological understanding and offers nuanced readings of his imagery. Throughout, Shakespeare's storms brings theatre history to bear on modern theories of literature and the environment. It is essential reading for anyone interested in early modern drama. -- .

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9780719089381

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'Jones is evocative in his attempts to imagine the volume and spectacle of these events in a quieter world, one without traffic and aircraft noises or cinema or volume controls in which a natural storm might have been a touchstone of loudness. ' Elizabeth Scott-Baumann TLS, March 2016 -- .

'Jones is evocative in his attempts to imagine the volume and spectacle of these events in a quieter world, one without traffic and aircraft noises or cinema or volume controls in which a natural storm might have been a touchstone of loudness. ' Elizabeth Scott-Baumann TLS, March 2016 'Gwilym Jones's Shakespeare's Storms offers an engaging and informative discussion of storms - and all of their constituent parts - and the theatrical presentations of those storms.' Darlene Farabee, University of South Dakota, Renaissance Quarterly Vol LXIX, No. 3 -- .

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Gwilym Jones is Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster

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