Description |
1 online resource (xii, 315 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
'What beast was't then?': stretching the boundaries in Macbeth -- A kingdom for a scaffold -- 'More than a creeping thing': baiting Coriolanus -- Cannibal, animal: figurations of the (in)human in Montaigne, Foxe, and Shakespearean revenge tragedy -- 'I'll see their trial first': law and disorder in Lear's Animal kingdom -- Revels' end: The tempest and after |
Summary |
In Shakespeare's London, the stage of the playhouse, the stake of the bear baiting arena, and the scaffold of public execution constituted an ensemble of related spectacles that shared the same audiences. Andreas Hofele argues that this generated a powerful exchange of images and a spill-over of animal features into Shakespeare's characters |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-306) and index |
Notes |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Animals
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SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Human body in literature.
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Human-animal relationships in literature.
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Animals
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Human-animal relationships in literature
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Human body in literature
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Theater
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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English Literature.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2011501334 |
ISBN |
9780191731075 |
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0191731072 |
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