Shakespeare and the human
Subtitle: Special section
By: general editors, Tom Bishop and Alexa Huang ; guest editor, Tiffany Jo Werth
Contributors: Joubin, Alexa Alice, 1973-
Series: The Shakespearean International Yearbook -- v. 15; Shakespearean international yearbook -- 15.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781315264233
Notes: Originally published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction : Shakespeare and the human / Tiffany Jo Werth; title: 2. Airy spirits : winds, bodies, and ecological force in early modern England / Steve Mentz; title: 3. Humans : exceptional humans, human exceptionalism, and the shape of things to come / Joseph Campana; title: 4. Birds : Shakespeare's tweets : a choir / Tom Bishop, Jean E. Howard, Gordan McMullan, and Vin Nardizzi; title: 5. Hybrids : animal law and the Actaeon myth in Titus Andronicus / Miranda Garno Nesler; title: 6. Fleece : the craziest transport : fleecing the non-human Merchant of Venice / Lowell Duckert; title: 7. Bees : the Shakespearean hive and the virtues of honey / Nicole A. Jacobs; title: 8. Plants : Shakespeare's mulberry : eco-materialism and "Living on" / Todd A. Borlik; title: 9. Water : absorption, uncontainment, and Cleopatra's barge / Ellen MacKay; title: 10. Shells : Pericles and the fantasy of shell-dwelling / Shannon Kelley; title: 11. Rocks : "Sure and firm-set earth" : Shakespeare, stone, and structuration / Andrew Tumminia; title: 12. Tail : "Poore wretch ... laid all naked on the bare earth" : human negative exceptionalism among the humanists / Laurie Shannon.