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This title examines the role of animal metaphor in the Shakespeare stage, particularly as such metaphor serves to underwrite various forms of social difference. Working through texts such as Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream", Jonson's "Volpone", and Middleton's "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside", different chapters of the study focus upon the allegedly natural character of femininity, masculinity, and ethnicity, while a fourth chapter considers the nature of the natural world itself as it appears on the Renaissance stage. Addressing each of these topics in turn, this volume explores the notions of cultural order that underlie early modern conceptions of the natural world, and the ideas of nature implicit in early modern social practice.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: plays & playwrights

• Full title: Shakespeare Among the Animals
• Author: Bruce Thomas Boehrer
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 212
• EAN: 9780312293437
• ISBN: 0312293437
• ID: 04579838
• Publisher: Palgrave USA
• Weight: 426 g
• Dimensions: 147 × 223 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. April 2002

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