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Title Performing animals : history, agency, theater / edited by Karen Raber and Monica Mattfeld
Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 195 pages)
Series Animalibus: of animals and cultures ; vol. 11
Animalibus ; volume 11.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Animals in the performing arts -- History
Human-animal relationships in the performing arts -- History
Animals as represented on the stage -- History
Equestrian drama -- History
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Animals as represented on the stage
Animals in the performing arts
Equestrian drama
Human-animal relationships in the performing arts
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Raber, Karen, 1961- editor.
Mattfeld, Monica, 1982- editor
LC no. 2017009262
ISBN 9780271080789
0271080787
0271080760
9780271080765