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Author:   Sophie Chiari (Professor of Early Modern English Literature and the Director of the ‘Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Clermont-Ferrand’, Université Clermont Auvergne, France) ,  Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise (Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Cultural Studies, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle in Paris)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
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9781399522137

ISBN 10:   1399522132
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   31 May 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements Series Editors' Preface Introduction Sophie Chiari and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise Part I. Fashioning Nativeness and Foreignness 1. Without a National Dress but with a Climate of Their Own: The Invention of the English Climate and ‘Constitution’ Margaret Tudeau-Clayton　　 2. The Clothes of Insularity in Browne’s Inner Temple Masque Elisabeth Lacombe Part II. The Humours of Dress 3. Fabrics, Fashion and the Environment: Representing Venice in Early Modern England Anne Geoffroy 4. ‘Come and see our frippery’: Brainworm’s Humour of Necessity and Clothes Trafficking in Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour Anna Demoux Part III. Clothing the Seasons of Life 5. Clad in Rags: Eco-psychology and Trans-textuality in the Lear stories Danièle Berton-Charrière 6. ‘O that I were a glove upon that hand’: Love and Gloves in Shakespeare François Laroque 7. Shakespeare’s Gaudy Dympna Callaghan Part IV. The Stuff That Gender Is Made Of 8. ‘That quiff and pinner that hath the gillyflower’: Flowers, Clothes and Female Identities in Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley’s The Concealed Fancies Lisa Hopkins　 9. Fashioning Falstaff: Dress and Disguise in Shakespeare’s Henry the Fourth and The Merry Wives of Windsor　 Valentina Finger 10. Middleton’s Ambivalent Fashions Chantal Schütz Part V. The Wealth of Nature's Wardrobe: Playing With The Elements 11. Water and Costume: Wetness on the Early Modern Stage Sophie Chiari 12. ‘Diana’s Shrouds’ and ‘Black Tempests’: Rites of Passage in Christopher Marlowe’s Dido Queen of Carthage Sélima Lejri 13. Changing Habits: The Politics and Theatricality of Clothing in Early Modern English Voyages Sophie Lemercier-Goddard Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

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With a keen eye to the plant and animal origins of Renaissance costume, this resplendent collection reveals how the environment is present on stage in the warp and weft of textiles and play-texts. Moving beyond Shakespeare and encompassing fabrics ranging from dirty linen and rags to luxurious furs and silks, the thirteen essays succeed brilliantly in retheorising the playhouse as a site of ecomaterial entanglement. The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries is historical ecocriticism of the finest yarn. -- Todd Borlik, Purdue University

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Sophie Chiari is Professor of Early Modern English Literature at Université Clermont Auvergne, France, where she is also the Director of the ‘Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Clermont-Ferrand’, 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 Shakespeare’s 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 Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris, France), where she also directs the Epistémè 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 (2016–2021). 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 Société Française 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 Shakespeare’s poetry in French translation for the Pléiade, Gallimard (2021), is currently working on a new French edition of Twelfth Night for Gallimard, and has recently translated Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris with Christine Sukic (forthcoming with Garnier Classiques).

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