Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - CHAP T2 - Chiari, The Experience of Disaster in Early Modern English Literature SP - 107-121 ID - bbbo36 T1 - "The Plague of Gnats in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries" AU - Chiari, Sophie PY - 2022 DA - 2022 LA - English AB - Considers understanding of gnats, midges, pests and other “vermin” for early modern literary culture. Discusses Shakespeare’s representation of such pests as inhabiting wet climates and their association with plague. ER -