The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Animals

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures Introduction Part 1 Animal Metaphors: History, Theory, Representation 1 Avian Shakespeare 2 Shakespeare’s Fishponds: Matter, Metaphor, and Market 3 “I Am the Dog”: Canine Abjection, Species Reversal, and Misanthropic Satire in the Two Gentlemen of Verona 4 Learning from Crab: Primitive Accumulation, Migration, Species Being 5 Beasts, Animals, and Animal Metaphor, in Shakespeare and His Fellow Dramatists Part 2 Scales of Meaning 6 Cow-Cross Lane and Curriers Row: Animal Networks in Early Modern England 7 “Everything Exists by Strife”: War and Creaturely Violence in Shakespeare’s Late Tragedies 8 Zoonotic Shakespeare: Animals, Plagues, and the Medical Posthumanities 9 Flock, Herd, Swarm: A Shakespearean Lexicon of Creaturely Collectivity Part 3 Animal Worlds/Animal Language 10 Swarm Life: Shakespeare’s School of Insects 11 Bernardian Ecology and Topsell’s Redemptive Bee in The Tempest 12 What Does the Wolf Say? Animal Language and Political Noise in Coriolanus 13 Shrewd Shakespeare Part 4 Training, Performance, and Living with Animals 14 The Training Relationship: Horses, Hawks, Dogs, Bears, and Humans 15 Performing the Winter’s Tale in the “Open”: Bear Plays, Skinners’ Pageants, and the Early Modern Fur Trade 16 Counting Shakespeare’s Sheep with The Second Shepherd’s Play 17 Silly Creatures: King Lear (with Sheep) Part 5 Animal Boundaries and Identities 18 The Lion King: Shakespeare’s Beastly Sovereigns 19 “Wearing the Horn”: Class and Community in the Shakespearean Hunt 20 On Eating, the Animal that Therefore I Am: Race and Animal Rites in Titus Andronicus 21 “What’s this? What’s this?”: Fish and Sexuality in Measure for Measure 22 My Palfrey, Myself: Toward a Queer Phenomenology of the Horse- Human Bond in Henry V and Beyond 23 “Forgiveness, Horse”: The Barbaric World of Richard II Appendix Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index