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Stage, stake, and scaffold : humans and animals in Shakespeare's theatre / by Andreas Hofele.
- Title
- Stage, stake, and scaffold : humans and animals in Shakespeare's theatre / by Andreas Hofele.
- Author
- Höfele, Andreas, 1950-
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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- Description
- 315 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Dramatic production
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Animals
- Fürstliches Schauspielhaus Bad Pyrmont
- Theater > England > History > 16th century
- Theater > England > History > 17th century
- Human body in literature
- Human-animal relationships in literature
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-306) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780199567645
- 0199567646
- OCLC
- 671709685
- SCSB-11755942
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library