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Date published
2017
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Publisher
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2017]
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Subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Knowledge Natural history.
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Accession number
83430050
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Class
Reading Room 50.17 commentary/HAM
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ISBN
9781474289047
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Physical description
xxi, 227 pages : pages cm.
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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.