Ecocritical Heywood and The Play of the Weather

Abstract

[John Heywood's interlude The Play of the Wether: A New and Very Mery Enterlude of All Maner Wetherc (1533) focuses specifically on the relationship between humans and the weather as negotiated through the divine. Curiously, most studies have not considered the importance of the weather in this play. Reading this interlude as primarily about weather not only demonstrates that early Tudorplays can be considered from an ecocritialperspective but abo that so-called 'green studies' need to take into accountpre-Shakespearean drama.]