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.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Routledge literature handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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.

Zoology.

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

Shakespeare, William.

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

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

England.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

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-- without having to do extensive research, readers will quickly find 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Animal Metaphors: History, Theory, Representation

1. Avian Shakespeare / Rebecca Ann Bach

2. Shakespeare's Fishponds: Matter, Metaphor, and Market / Dan Brayton

3. "I Am the Dog": Canine Abjection, Species Reversal, and Misanthropic Satire in The Two Gentlemen of Verona / Bryan Alkemeyer

4. Learning from Crab: Primitive Accumulation, Migration, Species Being / Crystal Bartolovich

5. Beasts, Animals, and Animal Metaphor, in Shakespeare and His Fellow Dramatists / Karl Steel

pt. 2 Scales of Meaning

6. Cow-Cross Lane and Curriers Row: Animal Networks in Early Modern England / Ian F. Machines

7. "Everything Exists by Strife": War and Creaturely Violence in Shakespeare's Late Tragedies / Benjamin Bertram

8. Zoonotic Shakespeare: Animals, Plagues, and the Medical Posthumanities / Lucinda Cole

9. Flock, Herd, Swarm: A Shakespearean Lexicon of Creaturely Collectivity / Joseph Campana

pt. 3 Animal Worlds/Animal Language

10. Swarm Life: Shakespeare's School of Insects / Keith Botelho

11. Bernardian Ecology and Topsell's Redemptive Bee in The Tempest / Nicole A. Jacobs

12. What Does the Wolf Say? Animal Language and Political Noise in Coriolanus / Kathryn Vomero Santos

13. Shrewd Shakespeare / Bruce Boehrer

pt. 4 Training, Performance, and Living with Animals

14. The Training Relationship: Horses, Hawks, Dogs, Bears, and Humans / Elspeth Graham

15. Performing The Winter's Tale in the "Open": Bear Plays, Skinners' Pageants, and the Early Modern Fur Trade / Todd A. Borlik

16. Counting Shakespeare's Sheep with The Second Shepherd's Play / Julian Yates

17. Silly Creatures: King Lear (with Sheep) / Laurie Shannon

pt. 5 Animal Boundaries and Identities

18. The Lion King: Shakespeare's Beastly Sovereigns / Nicole Mennell

19. "Wearing the Horn": Class and Community in the Shakespearean Hunt / Jennifer Allport Reid

20. On Eating, the Animal that Therefore I Am: Race and Animal Rites in Titus Andronicus / Steven Swarbrick

21. "What's This? What's This?": Fish and Sexuality in Measure for Measure / Robert Wakeman

22. My Palfrey, Myself: Toward a Queer Phenomenology of the Horse-Human Bond in Henry V and Beyond / Karen Raber

23. "Forgiveness, Horse": The Barbaric World of Richard II / Erica Fudge.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781138710160

1138710164

OCLC:

1142715685

Publisher Number:

99991367436