02465nam 2200397 450 991059789210332120230731120206.01-4742-8905-3(CKB)4100000010955951(NjHacI)994100000010955951(EXLCZ)99410000001095595120230731d2017 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThis contentious storm an ecocritical and performance history of King Lear /Jennifer Mae HamiltonLondon, England :Bloomsbury Academic,2017.1 online resource (272 pages)Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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."This Contentious StormNatural historyStorms in literatureNatural history.Storms in literature.822.33Hamilton Jennifer Mae1261623NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910597892103321This contentious storm3415838UNINA