Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene
Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene
By Craig Dionne. Punctum Books, 2016.
Approaching King Lear from an eco-materialist perspective, Posthuman Lear examines how the shift in Shakespeare’s tragedy from court to stormy heath activates a different sense of language as tool-being — from that of participating in the flourish of aristocratic prodigality and circumstance, to that of survival and pondering one’s interdependence with a denuded world. Dionne frames the thematic arc of Shakespeare’s tragedy about the fall of a king as a tableaux of ...