Performing animals : history, agency, theater / edited by Karen Raber and Monica Mattfeld.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raber, Karen, 1961- editor.

Mattfeld, Monica, 1982- editor.

Series:

Animalibus ; v. 11.

Animalibus: of animals and cultures ; vol. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals in the performing arts--History.

Animals in the performing arts.

Human-animal relationships in the performing arts--History.

Human-animal relationships in the performing arts.

Animals as represented on the stage--History.

Animals as represented on the stage.

Equestrian drama--History.

Equestrian drama.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 195 pages ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"A collection of essays that explore the role of performing animals in literature, theater, art, and other media prior to the twentieth century, and discuss recent theoretical work in animal studies, materialism, and post humanism"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Animals at the table : performing meat in early modern England and Europe / Karen Raber

Intra-active performativity : rethinking the early modern equestrian portrait / Pia F. Cuneo

Past performances : gleanings from the archives about early modern equine athletic performance / Richard Nash

"I see them galloping!" : war, affect, and performing horses in Matthew Lewis's Timour the Tartar / Monica Mattfeld

Peaceable kingdom : the place of the dog at the nativity scene / Rob Wakeman

Performing pain : the suffering animal in early modern experiment / Sarah E. Parker

Circus minimus : the early modern theater of insects / Jessica Wolfe

Shakespeare's insect theater : fairy lore as Elizabethan folk entomology / Todd Andrew Borlik

Miss Mazeppa and the horse with no name / Kari Weil

Horses queer the stage and society of Shenandoah / Kim Marra.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271078342

0271078340

OCLC:

982373419