This contentious storm an ecocritical and performance history of King Lear
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 J...
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Sprache: | eng |
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London, Oxford, New York, NY
Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2017
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Schriftenreihe: | Environmental cultures
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Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | xxi, 227 Seiten Illustrationen |
ISBN: | 9781474289047 978-1-4742-8904-7 |