Shakespeare Among the Animals: Nature and Society in the Drama of Early Modern England (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312293437)

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.

Author: B. Boehrer
ISBN-10: 0312293437
ISBN-13: 9780312293437
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 04/15/2002
Pages: 212
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.82w x 0.80d