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.
Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory charts challenges in the field of Shakespeare studies to the assumption that the category "human+? is real, stable, or worthy of privileging in discussions of the ...playwright's work. Drawing on a variety of methodologies - cognitive theory, systems theory, animal studies, ecostudies, the new materialisms - the volume investigates the world of Shakespeare's plays and poems in order to represent more thoroughly its variety, its ethics of inclusion, and its resistance to human triumphalism and exceptionalism. Karen Raber, a leading scholar in the field, clearly and cogently guides the reader through complex theoretical terrain, providing fresh, exciting readings of plays including Othello, The Tempest, Titus Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida and Henry IV Part 1.
Animal Bodies, Renaissance Cultureexamines how the shared embodied existence of early modern human and nonhuman animals challenged the establishment of species distinctions. The material conditions ...of the early modern world brought humans and animals into complex interspecies relationships that have not been fully accounted for in critical readings of the period's philosophical, scientific, or literary representations of animals. Where such prior readings have focused on the role of reason in debates about human exceptionalism, this book turns instead to a series of cultural sites in which we find animal and human bodies sharing environments, mutually transforming and defining one another's lives. To uncover the animal body's role in anatomy, eroticism, architecture, labor, and consumption, Karen Raber analyzes canonical works including More'sUtopia, Shakespeare'sHamletandRomeo and Juliet, and Sidney's poetry, situating them among readings of human and equine anatomical texts, medical recipes, theories of architecture and urban design, husbandry manuals, and horsemanship treatises. Raber reconsiders interactions between environment, body, and consciousness that we find in early modern human-animal relations. Scholars of the Renaissance period recognized animals' fundamental role in fashioning what we call "culture," she demonstrates, providing historical narratives about embodiment and the cultural constructions of species difference that are often overlooked in ecocritical and posthumanist theory that attempts to address the "question of the animal."
From bears on the Renaissance stage to the equine pageantry of the nineteenth-century hunt, animals have been used in human-orchestrated entertainments throughout history. The essays in this volume ...present an array of case studies that inspire new ways of interpreting animal performance and the role of animal agency in the performing relationship.
In exploring the human-animal relationship from the early modern period to the nineteenth century, Performing Animals questions what it means for an animal to “perform,” examines how conceptions or this relationship have evolved over time, and explores whether and how human understanding of performance is changed by an animal’s presence. The contributors discuss the role of animals in venues as varied as medieval plays, natural histories, dissections, and banquets, and they raise provocative questions about animals’ agency. In so doing, they demonstrate the innovative potential of thinking beyond the boundaries of the present in order to dismantle the barriers that have traditionally divided human from animal.
From fleas to warhorses to animals that “perform” even after death, this delightfully varied volume brings together examples of animals made to “act” in ways that challenge obvious notions of performance. The result is an eye-opening exploration of human-animal relationships and identity that will appeal greatly to scholars and students of animal studies, performance studies, and posthuman studies.
In addition to the editors, the contributors are Todd Andrew Borlik, Pia F. Cuneo, Kim Marra, Richard Nash, Sarah E. Parker, Rob Wakeman, Kari Weil, and Jessica Wolfe.
Vin Nardizzi excavates evidence of the wooden actor, whose failure makes him the genuine "post-human" (201), while Erica Fudge leverages her struggle to discover the "joint dance of being" (146)-the ...farmyard choreography that characterizes human interactions with farm animals-into a meditation on methodology and the limits of the archive.Roof 's insights into the "disordering" (100) function of brackets, boxes, and frames, which disrupt assumptions about inside and outside, depth, and time, can be profitably extended not just to the category of the human, or to humanism, as Roof does, but also to the structure and content of the collection itself, self-consciously framed by its editors' introduction and epilogue, in which through lines of argument converge, diverge, and resonate wildly, and which refuses a simple parsing of any one essay in terms of its supposed theme or determinable content....Heffernan might have benefited from reading both Shannon and Montaigne more carefully and thoughtfully.
Climate change has had paradoxical effects on this line of thought by bringing human influence on the planet's natural systems via anthropogenic climate change to the foreground at the same time that ...human actions seem dwarfed in significance by the sheer ubiquity and randomness of the weather that results from global warming. Scientific and religious principles framed the reception of information from any specific environment or its attributes, sometimes in direct tension with one another. ...while A Midsummer Night's Dream may be, in Chiari's reading, a "wet" play or As You Like It "frosty," each play invokes multiple contexts that cannot be fully disentangled from one another. Noting that England's experience of the Little Ice Age would have translated mainly into soggy, cold conditions, Chiari links this fact to the play's gendered association with women's cold fluid bodies and their capacity for misrule. ...Chiari makes the case that the conditions present on Shakespeare's stage itself deepen the play's meaning: "Shakespeare repeatedly suggests that the stage, sometimes battered by the winds and the rain, and the
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