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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.
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Table of contents
- Environmental Cultures Series
- Dedication
- Title
- Quote
- Contentsâ
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Note on the edition of King Lear in this book and referencing style
- Preface: The Plot
- Introduction: The Case for King Lear
- Part 1âEcocriticism
- 1âMeteorological Reading
- 2ââWhat is the cause of thunder?â: The Stormâs Three Ambiguities
- 3âCataclysmic Shame: Three Views of Learâs Mortal Body in the Storm
- Part 2âPerformance History
- 4âEcocritical Big History
- 5âThe Spectacular Jacobean Theatre
- 6âStorms of Fortune: Industrial Technology and Nahum Tate, c. 1680âc. 1900
- 7âLearâs Head: The Rise of the Psychological Metaphor, 1908â1955
- 8âTowards the Flood, 1962â2016
- Epilogue: The Art of Necessity
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright
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