The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Animals.

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.

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.

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