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oapen-20.500.12657-588052022-10-15T03:22:10Z This Contentious Storm: An Ecocritical and Performance History of King Lear Hamilton, Jennifer Mae Literary studies: plays and playwrights Comparative literature Literature: history and criticism bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSG Literary studies: plays & playwrights::DSGS Shakespeare studies & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBD Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSA Literary theory This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. 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. 2022-10-14T14:54:05Z 2022-10-14T14:54:05Z 2017 book ONIX_20221014_9781474289061_136 9781474289061 9781474289054 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58805 eng Environmental Cultures application/pdf n/a 9781474289061.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781474289078 10.5040/9781474289078 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781474289061 9781474289054 Bloomsbury Academic 272 London open access
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. 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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