TY - BOOK AU - Fudge,Erica AU - Perry,Kathryn AU - Schiesari,Juliana AU - Wiseman,S.J. AU - Sheen,Erica AU - Stewart,Alan AU - Graham,Elpseth AU - Knowles,James AU - Cummings,Brian AU - Harrison,Peter TI - Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful Creatures SN - 9780252091339 AV - QL85 U1 - 590/.9031 PY - 2004/// CY - Champaign PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Animals and civilization-Europe-History-16th century KW - Animals and civilization-Europe-History-17th century KW - Animals (Philosophy)-Europe-History-16th century KW - Animals (Philosophy)-Europe-History-17th century KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Unpicking the Seam: Talking Animals and Reader Pleasure in Early Modern Satire -- 2. "Bitches and Queens": Pets and Perversion at the Court of France's Henri III -- 3. Hairy on the Inside: Metamorphosis and Civility in English Werewolf Texts -- 4. Saying Nothing Concerning the Same: On Dominion, Purity, and Meat in Early Modern England -- 5. "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?" Shakespeare's Animations -- 6. Government by Beagel: The Impersonal Rule of James VI and I -- 7. Reading, Writing, and Riding Horses in Early Modern England: James Shirley's Hyde Park (1632) and Gervase Markham's Cavelarice (1607) -- 8. "Can ye not tell a man from a marmoset?" Apes and Others on the Early Modern Stage -- 9. Pliny's Literate Elephant and the Idea of Animal Language in Renaissance Thought -- 10. Reading Vital Signs: Animals and the Experimental Philosophy -- 11. The Menagerie and the Labyrinthe: Animals at Versailles, 1662-1792 -- Contributors -- Index UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3413950 ER -