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

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

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Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0312293437
ISBN13: 9780312293437
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Apr 15 2002
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.82 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
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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