Stage, stake, and scaffold
Subtitle: humans and animals in Shakespeare's theatre
By: Andreas Höfele
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780199567645
Subjects: Human-animal relationships in literature; Animals; Knowledge; Human body in literature; Criticism and interpretation; Dramatic production
Description: 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 of animal features into Shakespeare's characters.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-306) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'What beast was't then?': stretching the boundaries in Macbeth; title: A kingdom for a scaffold; title: 'More than a creeping thing': baiting Coriolanus; title: Cannibal, animal: figurations of the (in)human in Montaigne, Foxe, and Shakespearean revenge tragedy; title: 'I'll see their trial first': law and disorder in Lear's Animal kingdom; title: Revels' end: The tempest and after.