This Contentious Storm: An Ecocritical and Performance History of King Lear

AvJennifer Mae Hamilton,Richard Kerridge

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-08-24
Mått:154 x 236 x 18 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Environmental Cultures
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781474289047

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Jennifer Mae Hamilton is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, funded by The Seed Box: A MISTRA+FORMAS Environmental Humanities Collaboratory, Linköping University, Sweden. She also lectures in ecocriticism at New York University, Sydney

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This Contentious Storm does beautiful work of interweaving literary ecocriticism, theatre history, contemporary ecological theory, and historical and philosophical approaches to meteorology and performance ... [Hamilton] skilfully integrates rigorous research and good-humouredly conceals the labour that makes the work such joy to read. This Contentious Storm is a bright exemplar of what theatre and performance can contribute to interdisciplinary environmental humanities conversations, breaching literary and performance-based approaches. It will soon be impossible to think of theatre history and ecology together without reference to this book.

Innehållsförteckning

Prologue: The PlotIntroduction: The Case for King Lear Part 1 - EcocriticismChapter 1: Meteorological ReadingChapter 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 StormPart 2 – Performance HistoryChapter 4: Ecocritical Big HistoryChapter 5: The Spectacular Jacobean TheatreChapter 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, 1962-2016Epilogue: The Art of NecessityBibliography