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This contentious storm : an ecocritical and performance history of King Lear / Jennifer Mae Hamilton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamilton, Jennifer Mae, author.
- Series:
- Environmental cultures series
- Environmental cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge and learning--Natural history.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Natural history.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.
- King Lear (Shakespeare, William).
- Storms in literature.
- Ecocriticism.
- Theater.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 227 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
- Summary:
- From providential apocalypticism to climate change, this ground-breaking ecocritical study traces the performance history of the storm scene in King Lear to explore our shifting, fraught and deeply ideological relationship with stormy weather across time. This Contentious Storm offers a new ecocritical reading of Shakespeare's classic play, illustrating how the storm has been read as a sign of the providential, cosmological, meteorological, psychological, neurological, emotional, political, sublime, maternal, feminine, heroic and chaotic at different points in history. The big ecocritical history charted here reveals the unstable significance of the weather and mobilizes details of the play's dramatic narrative to figure the weather as a force within self, society and planet. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the case for King Lear
- Ecocriticism. Meteorological reading
- "What is the cause of thunder?": the storm's three ambiguities
- Cataclysmic shame: three views of Lear's mortal body in the storm
- Performance history. Ecocritical big history
- The spectacular Jacobean theatre
- Storms of fortune: industrial technology and Nahum Tate, c.1680-c.1900
- Lear's head: the rise of the psychological metaphor, 1908-1955
- Towards the flood, 1962-2016
- Epilogue: the art of necessity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781474289047
- 1474289045
- OCLC:
- 951032571
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