Shakespeare’s Theater of Nature

Aaron Kitch is Associate Professor of English at Bowdoin College, USA, and the author of Political Economy and the States of Literature in Early Modern England (2009). Together with Jennifer Rust, he is the co-editor of Rethinking Science and Religion in Early Modern Culture (2025) and has published articles in Studies in English Literature, Religion and Literature, Shakespeare Quarterly, Modern Philology, and Configurations, among other journals.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Representing Nature.- 3. Staging Nature.- 4. Natural Idolatry in Two Gentlemen of Verona.- 5. Visualizing Nature in the History Plays.- 6. Natural Medicine in All's Well that Ends Well and Macbeth.- 7. The Nature of Divination in Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra.- 8. King Lear and the Orders of Nature.- 9. Epilogue: Rethinking Nature.