Stage, stake, and scaffold : humans and animals in Shakespeare's theatre

Stage, stake, and scaffold : humans and animals in Shakespeare's theatre / Andreas Höfele.

In Shakespeare's London, the stage of the playhouse, the stake of the bear baiting arena, and the scaffold of public execution constituted an ensemble of related spectacles that shared the same audiences. Andreas Hofele argues that this generated a powerful exchange of images and a spill-over o...

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Main Author: Höfele, Andreas, 1950-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Animals.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
Human body in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Animals
Human-animal relationships in literature
Human body in literature
Theater
English.
Languages & Literatures.
English Literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • 'What beast was't then?': stretching the boundaries in Macbeth
  • A kingdom for a scaffold
  • 'More than a creeping thing': baiting Coriolanus
  • Cannibal, animal: figurations of the (in)human in Montaigne, Foxe, and Shakespearean revenge tragedy
  • 'I'll see their trial first': law and disorder in Lear's Animal kingdom
  • Revels' end: The tempest and after.

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