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From the Miller’s Tale to King Lear’s roaring sea, a history of flooding in literature

by Stewart Mottram

Chaucer and Shakespeare lived through periods of weird weather not unlike what we are seeing today. So what can we learn from their writing?

https://theconversation.com/from-the-millers-tale-to-king-lears-roaring-sea-a-history-of-flooding-in-literature-270947?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%204%202025%20-%203604936800&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%204%202025%20-%203604936800+CID_9dfc34c270e32b22d602076f3a77bd64&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=From%20the%20Millers%20Tale%20to%20King%20Lears%20roaring%20sea%20a%20history%20of%20flooding%20in%20literature

Chaucer & Shakespeare at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/144
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65

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Cropped image from the title Page of an 1884 reprint of A true report of certaine wonderfull ouerflowings of Waters, now lately in Summerset-shire, Norfolke and other places of England..., originally printed in London 1607.

A 17th-century woodcut illustration from a 1607 flood pamphlet (reprinted 1884) depicting catastrophic flooding in England. The scene shows people clinging to trees, a partially submerged church steeple, drowning livestock, and desperate survivors in boats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1607_Bristol_Channel_floods#/media/File:Somerset.gif

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