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Author Hamilton, Jennifer Mae, author.

Title This contentious storm : an ecocritical and performance history of King Lear / Jennifer Mae Hamilton, University of Sydney, Australia.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource.
Series Environmental cultures
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 16, 2017).
Local Note Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Natural history.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. (OCoLC)fst00029048
King Lear (Shakespeare, William) (OCoLC)fst01356322
Storms in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
Literary theory.
Shakespeare studies & criticism.
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Ecocriticism. (OCoLC)fst00901428
Natural history. (OCoLC)fst01034268
Storms in literature. (OCoLC)fst01134154
Theater. (OCoLC)fst01149217
ISBN 9781474289061 (electronic book)
1474289061 (electronic book)
9781474289054 (epub)
9781474289047
1474289045
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