This article argues that King Learn can help re-shape ecocriticism. The play's focus on human dis-harmony with the nonhuman environment resonates with the "post-equilibrium shift" in ecological thinking. The play's emphasis on the way natural systems such as the weather disrupt human meaning-making generates an alternative to dualistic notions of the self-nature relationship. By representing ecological instability and pluralized selfhood, King Lear reminds "green" readers how difficult and disorderly living in a mutable ecosystem can be
