Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700: Nature and Society in the Drama of Early Modern England

Boehrer, B.

Shakespeare Among the Animals 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, Shakespeare Among the Animals 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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2002-04-15

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349387441

DOI: 10.1057/9780230602120

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 212