This Contentious Storm: An Ecocritical and Performance History of King Lear
1st Edition
Published on 24. August 2017
272 pages
978-1-4742-8905-4 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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10 b/w illustrations
ISBN-13
978-1-4742-8905-4 (9781474289054)
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Jennifer Mae Hamilton
This Contentious Storm: An Ecocritical and Performance History of King Lear
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08/2017
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Jennifer Mae Hamilton is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, funded by The Seed Box: A MISTRA+FORMAS Environmental Humanities Collaboratory, Linköping University, Sweden. She also lectures in ecocriticism at New York University, Sydney
Content
Prologue: The Plot
Introduction: The Case for King Lear
Part 1 - Ecocriticism
Chapter 1: Meteorological Reading
Chapter 2: 'What is the cause of thunder?': The Storm's Three Ambiguities
Chapter 3: Cataclysmic Shame: Three Views of Lear's Mortal Body in the Storm
Part 2 - Performance History
Chapter 4: Ecocritical Big History
Chapter 5: The Spectacular Jacobean Theatre
Chapter 6: Storms of Fortune: Industrial Technology and Nahum Tate,
c.1680-c.1900
Chapter 7: Lear's Head: The Rise of the Psychological Metaphor, 1908-1955.
Chapter 8: Towards the Flood, 1962-2016
Epilogue: The Art of Necessity
Bibliography
Introduction: The Case for King Lear
Part 1 - Ecocriticism
Chapter 1: Meteorological Reading
Chapter 2: 'What is the cause of thunder?': The Storm's Three Ambiguities
Chapter 3: Cataclysmic Shame: Three Views of Lear's Mortal Body in the Storm
Part 2 - Performance History
Chapter 4: Ecocritical Big History
Chapter 5: The Spectacular Jacobean Theatre
Chapter 6: Storms of Fortune: Industrial Technology and Nahum Tate,
c.1680-c.1900
Chapter 7: Lear's Head: The Rise of the Psychological Metaphor, 1908-1955.
Chapter 8: Towards the Flood, 1962-2016
Epilogue: The Art of Necessity
Bibliography
