『리어왕』의 생태 비평적 읽기 = An Ecocritical Reading of King Lear

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

During the storm scene, Lear in madness asks the question, “What is the cause of thunder?” Seen through an ecocritical lens, the question is about what relation there is between the moral of man and its containing universe. Examining the play`s answers to the question, this paper discusses how an anthropocentric view toward nature causes destructive results within the play. New environmental ethics which emphasizes human respect and ethical obligation for nature is suggested as a way to offset Lear`s anthropocentric attitude. As a metatheatrical element, the playwright`s aesthetic effort to overcome the binary thought between the realistic world and the fictive world is also discussed through the role-play within a role device. The example of Edgar shows that the realistic and the fictive coexist together at the same moment, crossing the border between them, which allows readers and audience to relate imagined nature shown in the play with real nature outside the play.

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