The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Cover
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Series Editors’ Preface
Introduction
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’
	2. The Clothes of Insularity in Browne’s Inner Temple Masque
Part II: The Humours of Dress
	3. Fabrics, Fashion and the Environment: Representing Venice in Early Modern England
	4. ‘Come and see our frippery’: Brainworm’s Humour of Necessity and Clothes Trafficking in Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour
Part III: Clothing the Seasons of Life
	5. Clad in Rags: Eco-psychology and Trans-textuality in the Lear Stories
	6. ‘O that I were a glove upon that hand’: Love and Gloves in Shakespeare
	7. Shakespeare’s Gaudy
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
	9. Fashioning Falstaff: Dress and Disguise in Shakespeare’s Henry IV and The Merry Wives of Windsor
	10. Middleton’s Ambivalent Fashions
Part V: The Wealth of Nature’s Wardrobe: Playing with the Elements
	11. Water and Costume: Wetness on the Early Modern Stage
	12. ‘Diana’s Shrouds’ and ‘Black Tempests’: Rites of Passage in Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage
	13. Changing Habits: The Politics and Theatricality of Clothing in Early Modern English Voyages
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index