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Author Hamilton, Jennifer Mae, author.

Title This contentious storm : an ecocritical and performance history of King Lear / Jennifer Mae Hamilton, University of Sydney, Australia
Published London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series Environmental cultures
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
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 mobilises details of the play's dramatic narrative to figure the weather as a force within self, society and planet."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 16, 2017)
In Bloomsbury Open Access Bloomsbury Publishing
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Natural history
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
King Lear (Shakespeare, William) fast
Subject Storms in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
Literary theory.
Shakespeare studies & criticism.
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Ecocriticism
Natural history
Storms in literature
Theater
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017000366
ISBN 9781474289061
1474289061
1474289053
9781474289054
9781474289078
147428907X