Shakespeare Among the Animals

Nature and Society in the Drama of Early Modern England
2002. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-312-29343-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700

Shakespeare Among the Animals examines the role of animal-metaphor in the Shakespeare stage, particularly as such metaphor serves to underwrite various forms of social difference. Working through texts such as Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, Jonson's Volpone, and Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, different chapters of the study focus upon the allegedly natural character of femininity, masculinity, and ethnicity, while a fourth chapter considers the nature of the natural world itself as it appears on the Renaissance stage. Addressing each of these topics in turn, Shakespeare Among the Animals explores the notions of cultural order that underlie early modern conceptions of the natural world, and the ideas of nature implicit in early modern social practice.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boehrer, B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements A Note on Texts and Translations Introduction: How to Do Things With Animals Shakespeare's Beastly Buggers The Cuckoo and the Capon Dead Parrot Sketch Animal Fun for Everyone Further Reading Notes Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

BRUCE BOEHRER is Professor of English literature at Florida State University. He is the author of and along with numerous scholarly articles. He is also founding editor of the semiannual .