This Contentious Storm: An Ecocritical And Performance History Of King Lear (Environmental Cultures)

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

• | Author: Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Greg Garrard
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Aug 24, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/LITERARY CRITICISM
• | ISBN-10: 1474289045
• | ISBN-13: 9781474289047