jupitersterrain four

keep viewers on a “knife-edge”

labouring women using gas and air

hard-hitting plot lines

intense vulnerability

recklessly threw her clothes 

the poor bare forked animal 

King Lear 
misc notes 4.44am 


chucked out 


this humanity is defined negatively, by lack, rather than by the singularizing, positive attribute that typifies human exceptionalist accounts. Lear’s unaccommodated man, then, is a negative exception to a pre-Cartesian, natural historical rule of animal integrity or “sovereignty.” An intellectual archaeology of the zoographic resources of Lear’s familiar lines suggests an antiexceptionalist tradition and evidences a historical vision of humankind placed in a wider, “zootopian” milieu

n assessing this vision, the reduced dualism of animal lack and human sovereignty that undergirds our habitual reference to a “human-animal divide” simply cannot be taken for granted, because a different cognizance of the varied presence of animal form