This book addresses the concept of disaster through a variety of literary texts dating back to the early modern period. While Shakespeare's age, which was an era of colonization, certainly marked a turning point in men and women's relations with nature, the present times seem to announce the advent of environmental justice in spite of the massive ecological destructions that have contributed to reshape our planet. Between then and now, a whole history of climatic disasters and their artistic depictions needs to be traced. The literary representations of eco-catastrophes, in particular, have consistently fashioned the English identity and led to the progress of science and the advancement of learning. They have also obliged us to adapt, recycle, and innovate. How could the destructive process entailed by ecological disasters be represented on the page and thereby transformed into a creative process encouraging meditation, preservation, and resilience in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? To this question, this book offers nuanced, contextualized, and perceptive answers. Divided into three main sections: Extreme Conditions, Tempestuous Skies, and Biblical Calamities, it deals with the major environmental issues of our time through the prism of early modern culture and literature.