This contentious storm : an ecocritical and performance history of King Lear /

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hamilton, Jennifer Mae (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Colección:Environmental cultures
Temas:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > King Lear.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Natural history.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
King Lear (Shakespeare, William)
Storms in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Tempêtes dans la littérature.
Écocritique.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
Literary theory.
Shakespeare studies & criticism.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Natural history.
Theater.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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