The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Animals

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
Part 1 Animal Metaphors: History, Theory, Representation
	1 Avian Shakespeare
	2 Shakespeare’s Fishponds: Matter, Metaphor, and Market
	3 “I Am the Dog”: Canine Abjection, Species Reversal, and Misanthropic Satire in the Two Gentlemen of Verona
	4 Learning from Crab: Primitive Accumulation, Migration, Species Being
	5 Beasts, Animals, and Animal Metaphor, in Shakespeare and His Fellow Dramatists
Part 2 Scales of Meaning
	6 Cow-Cross Lane and Curriers Row: Animal Networks in Early Modern England
	7 “Everything Exists by Strife”: War and Creaturely Violence in Shakespeare’s Late Tragedies
	8 Zoonotic Shakespeare: Animals, Plagues, and the Medical Posthumanities
	9 Flock, Herd, Swarm: A Shakespearean Lexicon of Creaturely Collectivity
Part 3 Animal Worlds/Animal Language
	10 Swarm Life: Shakespeare’s School of Insects
	11 Bernardian Ecology and Topsell’s Redemptive Bee in The Tempest
	12 What Does the Wolf Say? Animal Language and Political Noise in Coriolanus
	13 Shrewd Shakespeare
Part 4 Training, Performance, and Living with Animals
	14 The Training Relationship: Horses, Hawks, Dogs, Bears, and Humans
	15 Performing the Winter’s Tale in the “Open”: Bear Plays, Skinners’ Pageants, and the Early Modern Fur Trade
	16 Counting Shakespeare’s Sheep with The Second Shepherd’s Play
	17 Silly Creatures: King Lear (with Sheep)
Part 5 Animal Boundaries and Identities
	18 The Lion King: Shakespeare’s Beastly Sovereigns
	19 “Wearing the Horn”: Class and Community in the Shakespearean Hunt
	20 On Eating, the Animal that Therefore I Am: Race and Animal Rites in Titus Andronicus
	21 “What’s this? What’s this?”: Fish and Sexuality in Measure for Measure
	22 My Palfrey, Myself: Toward a Queer Phenomenology of the Horse- Human Bond in Henry V and Beyond
	23 “Forgiveness, Horse”: The Barbaric World of Richard II
Appendix
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index