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This Contentious Storm: An Ecocritical and Performance History of King Lear (Environmental Cultures)
| Full title: | This Contentious Storm: An Ecocritical and Performance History of King Lear (Environmental Cultures) |
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| ISBN: | 9781474289047 |
| ISBN 10: | 1474289045 |
| Authors: | Hamilton, Jennifer Mae |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Num. pages: | 256 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Language: | en |
| Published on: | 2017 |
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Synopsis
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