Shakespeare Among the Animals: Nature and Society in the Drama of Early Modern England - Rilegato

Boehrer, Bruce Thomas

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ISBN 10: 0312293437 ISBN 13: 9780312293437

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

BRUCE BOEHRER is Professor of English literature at Florida State University. He is the author of Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England and The Fury of Men's Gullets: Ben Jonson and the Digestive Canal along with numerous scholarly articles. He is also founding editor of the semiannual Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies.

Contenuti:

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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0312293437
• ISBN 13: 9780312293437
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 212