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1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Environmental cultures
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Environmental cultures series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge and learning -- Natural history.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Natural history. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
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King Lear (Shakespeare, William) |
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Storms in literature.
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Storms in literature. |
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Ecocriticism.
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Ecocriticism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hamilton, Jennifer Mae. This contentious storm. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 (DLC) 2017000366 |
| ISBN |
9781474289061 (electronic book) |
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1474289061 (electronic book) |
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1474289053 (electronic book) |
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9781474289054 |
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9781474289078 (online) |
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147428907X |
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9781474289047 |
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1474289045 |
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9781474289054 (epub) |
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