Acknowledgements Introduction: Shakespearean Spaces of Production in the Anthropocene Chapter 1: The Fabric of Life in the Sonnets Good husbandry Black pastoralism Nature's agency Overgreening the Sonnets Chapter 2: Crossing the Nature/Culture Divide in Love's Labour's Lost A locus of empowerment The commodification of Navarre's green world Imperialism in the King's estate A cultural nature Chapter 3: Water Industry and Riverine Collapse An instrumentalist approach to rivers Fresh water control and diversion Ditches and drainage issues Fluid dynamics in Shakespeare Chapter 4: From Early Modern Sandscapes to the Making of Glass Early modern sandscapes Transience and mutability The materiality of sand From materiality to 'bare life' Chapter 5: Under-ground Shakespeare: Transgressing the Limits and Foraging the Earth The figure of the collier Coal dependency: after wood, mineral fuel Extraction economy: wresting resources from nature Conflict landscapes: a wounded earth At the heart of darkness Chapter 6: Plotting, Digging, Burying, or Soil Issues in Hamlet Land possession Decay and degeneration Subterranean passages Searching for inwardness Chapter 7: Business in the Frost in The Tempest The island's double climate Land use Imperialism and extraction Extracting. and burying Chapter 8: White Ecology: The Salt of Early Modern Life Salt-making Seasoning and preserving An imperial commodity Preservation and destruction: from natural to commodified white gold Conclusion: Transforming Nature: Life in a Crisis Mode Bibliography Index.