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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.
Contents
Prologue: The Plot
Introduction: The Case for King Lear
Part 1 - Ecocriticism
Chapter 1: Meteorological Reading
Chapter 2: 'What is the cause of thunder?': The Storm's Three Ambiguities
Chapter 3: Cataclysmic Shame: Three Views of Lear's Mortal Body in the Storm
Part 2 - Performance History
Chapter 4: Ecocritical Big History
Chapter 5: The Spectacular Jacobean Theatre
Chapter 6: Storms of Fortune: Industrial Technology and Nahum Tate,
c.1680-c.1900
Chapter 7: Lear's Head: The Rise of the Psychological Metaphor, 1908-1955.
Chapter 8: Towards the Flood, 1962-2016
Epilogue: The Art of Necessity
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