Description: During the early days of the professional English theatre, dramatists wrote for playhouses that, though enclosed by surrounding walls, remained open to the ambient air and the sky above. This book considers the various ways in which the air is brought into presence within early modern drama.
Review Quotes: "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." -- Todd Andrew Borlik, University of Huddersfield
"In small moments like these and across the book as a whole, Preedy offers us vital new tools for interpreting how early modern drama works-and worked-in performance. Her book reminds us that it is not just through the plays' language, but through the orchestration of a whole host of coordinated effects (sonic, spatial, kinetic), that earlymodern drama engaged its audiences." -- Allison Deutermann, Modern Philology