The Routledge handbook of Shakespeare and animals /

The Routledge handbook of Shakespeare and animals / edited by Karen Raber and Holly Dugan.

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Shakespeare's plays have a long and varied performance history. The relevance of his plays in literary studies cannot be understated, but only recently have scholars been looking into the presence and significance of animals within the canon. Readers willquickly find--without having to do exten...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Raber, Karen, 1961- (Editor), Dugan, Holly, 1975- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Series:Routledge literature handbooks.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Zoology.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
1500-1699
Animals in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Animals and civilization > England > History > 16th century.
Animals and civilization > England > History > 17th century.
Animals and civilization
Animals in literature
Human-animal relationships in literature
Zoology
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Table of Contents:
  • Avian Shakespeare / Rebecca Ann Bach
  • Shakespeare's fishponds : matter, metaphor, and market / Daniel Brayton
  • 'I am the dog' : canine abjection, species reversal, and misanthropic satire in Two Gentlemen of Verona / Bryan Alkemeyer
  • Learning from Crab : primitive accumulation, migration, species being / Crystal Bartolovich
  • Animal behavior and metaphor, in Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists / Karl Steel
  • Cow-cross lane and curriers row : animal networks in early Modern England / Ian MacInnes
  • 'Everything exists by strife' : war and creaturely violence in Shakespeare's late tragedies / Benjamin Bertram
  • Zoonotic Shakespeare : animals, plagues, and the medical posthumanities / Lucinda Cole
  • Flock, herd, swarm : a Shakespearean lexicon of creaturely collectivity / Joseph Campana
  • Swarm life : Shakespeare's school of insects / Keith Botelho
  • 'Where the bee sucks' : Bernardian ecology and the PostReformation animal / Nicole Jacobs
  • What does the wolf say? : wolvish tongues and animal language in Coriolanus / Liza Blake and Kathryn Vomero Santos
  • Shrewd Shakespeare / Bruce Boehrer
  • The training relationship : horses, hawks, dogs, bears and humans / Elspeth Graham
  • Performing The Winter's Tale in the 'open' : bear plays, skinners' pageants, and the early modern fur trade / Todd Borlik
  • Counting Shakespeare's sheep with The Second Shepherd's Play / Julian Yates
  • Silly creatures : King Lear (with sheep) / Laurie Shannon
  • The lion king : Shakespeare's beastly sovereigns / Nicole Mennell
  • 'Wearing the horn' : class and community in the Shakespearean hunt / Jennifer Reid
  • On eating the animal that therefore I am : race and animal rites in Titus Andronicus / Steven Swarbrick
  • 'What's this? what's this?' : stockfish and piscine sexuality in Measure for Measure / Rob Wakeman
  • My palfrey, myself : toward a queer phenomenology of the horse-human bond in Henry V and beyond / Karen Raber
  • 'Forgiveness, horse' : the barbaric world of Richard II / Erica Fudge.

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