This contentious storm : : an ecocritical and performance history of King Lear / / Jennifer Mae Hamilton.
"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 ec...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London, England : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 pages) |
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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.