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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London : Routledge, [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. Readers will quickly 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:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Introduction

Part 1 Animal Metaphors: History, Theory, Representation

1 Avian Shakespeare

2 Shakespeare's Fishponds: Matter, Metaphor, and Market

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

4 Learning from Crab: Primitive Accumulation, Migration, Species Being

5 Beasts, Animals, and Animal Metaphor, in Shakespeare and His Fellow Dramatists

Part 2 Scales of Meaning

6 Cow-Cross Lane and Curriers Row: Animal Networks in Early Modern England

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

8 Zoonotic Shakespeare: Animals, Plagues, and the Medical Posthumanities

9 Flock, Herd, Swarm: A Shakespearean Lexicon of Creaturely Collectivity

Part 3 Animal Worlds/Animal Language

10 Swarm Life: Shakespeare's School of Insects

11 Bernardian Ecology and Topsell's Redemptive Bee in The Tempest

12 What Does the Wolf Say? Animal Language and Political Noise in Coriolanus

13 Shrewd Shakespeare

Part 4 Training, Performance, and Living with Animals

14 The Training Relationship: Horses, Hawks, Dogs, Bears, and Humans

15 Performing the Winter's Tale in the "Open": Bear Plays, Skinners' Pageants, and the Early Modern Fur Trade

16 Counting Shakespeare's Sheep with The Second Shepherd's Play

17 Silly Creatures: King Lear (with Sheep)

Part 5 Animal Boundaries and Identities

18 The Lion King: Shakespeare's Beastly Sovereigns

19 "Wearing the Horn": Class and Community in the Shakespearean Hunt

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

21 "What's this? What's this?": Fish and Sexuality in Measure for Measure.

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

23 "Forgiveness, Horse": The Barbaric World of Richard II

Appendix

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-305719-5

1-003-05719-5

1-000-09343-3

9781003057192

OCLC:

1176328072