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Shakespeare and Animals

A Dictionary

Karen Raber author Professor Karen Edwards author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:22nd Sep '22

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A definitive dictionary in the critically acclaimed Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries series providing readers with an invaluable compendium of references to animals across the works of Shakespeare.

This encyclopaedic account of animals in Shakespeare's plays and poems, provides readers with a much-needed resource by which to navigate the recent outpouring of critical and historical work on the topic. This dictionary extends its coverage to include insects, fish and mythic creatures, as well as the places, practices and lore pertaining to all animal-oriented experiences of early modern life. It emphasizes the role of animality in defining character, and is attentive to the instabilities of the human-animal boundary as they were theatrically represented, exploited and interrogated, but it is also concerned with the material presence of animals on stage and in everyday life in Shakespeare’s world. The volume is a new tool for instructors, but is also a resource for critics and scholars in the many disciplines engaged with animal studies, posthumanist theory, ecostudies and cultural studies.

ISBN: 9781350002531

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520 pages