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Shakespeare Among the Animals

Nature and Society in the Drama of Early Modern England

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  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. Bruce Boehrer
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Part of the book series: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700 (EMCSS)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction How to do Things with Animals

    • Bruce Boehrer
    Pages 1-40

  3. Shakespeare’s Beastly Buggers

    • Bruce Boehrer
    Pages 41-70

  4. The Cuckoo and the Capon

    • Bruce Boehrer
    Pages 71-98

  5. Dead Parrot Sketch

    • Bruce Boehrer
    Pages 99-132

  6. Animal Fun for Everyone

    • Bruce Boehrer
    Pages 133-168

  7. Conclusion Suggested Further Reading

    • Bruce Boehrer
    Pages 169-182

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 183-212
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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.

About the author

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.

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