This contentious storm : : an ecocritical and performance history of King Lear / / Jennifer Mae Hamilton, University of Sydney, Australia.
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| Place / Publishing House: | London ;, New York : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Environmental cultures series.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (227 pages) :; illustrations, photographs. |
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Table of 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.