Lynn Steger Strong writes about the climate-fuelled increase in hurricanes in the American Southeast and viewing them through the lens of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.”
On my class’s break, I saw an alert saying that a tornado had touched down in the county next to the one where my parents live. I texted. My mom said that it was loud outside, but they were safe. Their house is concrete, built to sustain most hurricanes, but the winds inside a tornado can get up to three hundred miles per hour. If a powerful one had touched down close enough to their house, they could have lost their roof. Class ended and I signed off.
“Lear” is generally considered Shakespeare’s most apocalyptic, nihilistic play . As in lots of other Shakespeare, almost everybody is dead by the end. Samuel Johnson famously wrote that he couldn’t stomach rereading the final scenes for years, so devastated was he by Cordelia’s death. Seventy-five years after the play was first performed, Nahum Tate rewrote it with a rosier ending. Lear regains his throne; Cordelia lives; she and Edgar marry.
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