Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Shakespearean arenas of production in the Anthropocene
  • 1. The fabric of life in the Sonnets
  • 2. Crossing the nature/culture divide in Love's Labour's Lost
  • 3. Water industry and riverine collapse
  • 4. From early modern sandscapes to the making of glass
  • 5. Underground Shakespeare: transgressing the limits and foraging the earth
  • 6. Plotting, digging, burying and soil issues in Hamlet
  • 7. Business in the frost in The Tempest
  • 8. White ecology: the salt of early modern life
  • Conclusion: Transforming nature: life in a crisis mode.