Airy Agency in Early Modern English Drama: Ho Trilogy
English Studies, vol.101, no.5, pp.537-549, 2020 (AHCI, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 101 Issue: 5
- Publication Date: 2020
- Doi Number: 10.1080/0013838x.2019.1672460
- Journal Name: English Studies
- Journal Indexes: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, L'Année philologique, Humanities Abstracts, International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance (IBTD), Linguistic Bibliography, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, DIALNET
- Page Numbers: pp.537-549
- Keywords: air pollution, Early modern English drama, Eastward Ho, Ho trilogy, Northward Ho, Westward Ho
- Ankara University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This article aims to analyse three early modern city comedies, which are Thomas Dekker and John Webster's Westward Ho and Northward Ho, and Ben Jonson, George Chapman and John Marston's Eastward Ho, to point to the intra-action between the human body and air. The analyses of these plays provide an insight into how air pollution and early phases of toxicity in the city shows the influence of the airy agency on human and nonhuman bodies. In this context, these three city comedies mention the difference between urban (polluted) and rural (fresh) air. The aim of this study is, thus, to trace the impacts of the airy agency in the early modern period on the human body, life, nature, and culture with references to the Ho trilogy.