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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raber, Karen, 1961- editor.

Dugan, Holly, 1975- editor.

Series:

Routledge literature handbooks

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge and learning--Zoology.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Zoology.

Animals in literature.

Human-animal relationships in literature.

Animals and civilization--England--History--16th century.

Animals and civilization.

Animals and civilization--England--History--17th century.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

England.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Karen Raber is aDistinguished Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is theauthor of Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory (2018) and Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture (2013), and editor with Monica Mattfeld of Performing Animals: History, Agency, Theater (2017). Holly Dugan is an Associate Professor of English at The George Washington University. She is the author of The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England (2011).

Summary:

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 extensive research--that the plays are teeming with animals! In this Handbook, Karen Raber and Holly Dugan delve deep into Shakespeare's World to illuminate and understand the use of animals in his span of work. This volume supplies a valuable resource, offering a broad and thorough grounding in the many ways animal references and the appearance of actual animals in the plays can be interpreted. It provides a thorough overview; demonstrates rigorous, original research; and charts new frontiers in the field through a broad variety of contributions from an international group of well-known and respected scholars.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781000093438

1000093433

9781003057192

1003057195

9781000093391

1000093395

9781000093414

1000093417

OCLC:

1176328072

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Restricted for use by site license.