Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Series Editors’ Preface xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I: Fashioning Nativeness and Foreignness
8. 1. Without a National Dress but with a Climate of Their Own: The Invention of the English Climate and ‘Constitution’ 17
9. 2. The Clothes of Insularity in Browne’s Inner Temple Masque 34
10. Part II: The Humours of Dress
11. 3. Fabrics, Fashion and the Environment: Representing Venice in Early Modern England 61
12. 4. ‘Come and see our frippery’: Brainworm’s Humour of Necessity and Clothes Trafficking in Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour 77
13. Part III: Clothing the Seasons of Life
14. 5. Clad in Rags: Eco-psychology and Trans-textuality in the Lear Stories 93
15. 6. ‘O that I were a glove upon that hand’: Love and Gloves in Shakespeare 110
16. 7. Shakespeare’s Gaudy 121
17. Part IV: The Stuff That Gender Is Made Of
18. 8. ‘That quiff and pinner that hath the gillyflower’: Flowers, Clothes and Female Identities in Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley’s The Concealed Fancies 147
19. 9. Fashioning Falstaff: Dress and Disguise in Shakespeare’s Henry IV and The Merry Wives of Windsor 163
20. 10. Middleton’s Ambivalent Fashions 178
21. Part V: The Wealth of Nature’s Wardrobe: Playing with the Elements
22. 11. Water and Costume: Wetness on the Early Modern Stage 195
23. 12. ‘Diana’s Shrouds’ and ‘Black Tempests’: Rites of Passage in Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage 214
24. 13. Changing Habits: The Politics and Theatricality of Clothing in Early Modern English Voyages 226
25. Notes on Contributors 245
26. Bibliography 250
27. Index 278