The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Animals (Routledge Literature Handbooks)

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. 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. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of Figures 9 Introduction 10 Part 1 Animal Metaphors: History, Theory, Representation 20 1 Avian Shakespeare 22 2 Shakespeare’s Fishponds: Matter, Metaphor, and Market 30 3 “I Am the Dog”: Canine Abjection, Species Reversal, and Misanthropic Satire in the Two Gentlemen of Verona 43 4 Learning from Crab: Primitive Accumulation, Migration, Species Being 54 5 Beasts, Animals, and Animal Metaphor, in Shakespeare and His Fellow Dramatists 70 Part 2 Scales of Meaning 84 6 Cow-Cross Lane and Curriers Row: Animal Networks in Early Modern England 86 7 “Everything Exists by Strife”: War and Creaturely Violence in Shakespeare’s Late Tragedies 99 8 Zoonotic Shakespeare: Animals, Plagues, and the Medical Posthumanities 113 9 Flock, Herd, Swarm: A Shakespearean Lexicon of Creaturely Collectivity 125 Part 3 Animal Worlds/Animal Language 136 10 Swarm Life: Shakespeare’s School of Insects 138 11 Bernardian Ecology and Topsell’s Redemptive Bee in The Tempest 147 12 What Does the Wolf Say? Animal Language and Political Noise in Coriolanus 159 13 Shrewd Shakespeare 172 Part 4 Training, Performance, and Living with Animals 184 14 The Training Relationship: Horses, Hawks, Dogs, Bears, and Humans 186 15 Performing the Winter’s Tale in the “Open”: Bear Plays, Skinners’ Pageants, and the Early Modern Fur Trade 199 16 Counting Shakespeare’s Sheep with The Second Shepherd’s Play 213 17 Silly Creatures: King Lear (with Sheep) 228 Part 5 Animal Boundaries and Identities 238 18 The Lion King: Shakespeare’s Beastly Sovereigns 240 19 “Wearing the Horn”: Class and Community in the Shakespearean Hunt 251 20 On Eating, the Animal that Therefore I Am: Race and Animal Rites in Titus Andronicus 265 21 “What’s this? What’s this?”: Fish and Sexuality in Measure for Measure 279 22 My Palfrey, Myself: Toward a Queer Phenomenology of the Horse- Human Bond in Henry V and Beyond 291 23 “Forgiveness, Horse”: The Barbaric World of Richard II 301 Appendix 316 Notes on Contributors 322 Bibliography 328 Index 354 ecocriticism;,material,studies;,natural,law;,renaissance;,early,modern;,animality;,posthumanism;,animal,influence;,human,and,animal,relationships;,gender;,sea,creatures ecocriticism,material studies,natural law,renaissance,early modern,animality,posthumanism,animal influence,human and animal relationships,gender,sea creatures "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-- without having to do extensive research, readers will quickly find 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"-- Provided by publisher