Shakespeare's Flora and Fauna

Shakespeare's Flora and Fauna
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9781862052888

Selections of floral and animal imagery from Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies, history plays, sonnets and longer poems.

Shakespeare's Animals

Shakespeare's Animals
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Pavilion Books, Limited
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Bears, dogs, foxes, goats, greyhounds, harts, stags, toads - are the many animal characteristics with which Shakespeare imbues his characters. This gift book contains selections of animal imagery from Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies, history plays and poetry. A general introduction places the animals in the context of mythological beliefs and everyday life in 16th-century England. The illustrations are taken from an early Tudor pattern book housed in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

Shakespeare and Animals

Shakespeare and Animals
Author: Karen Raber
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2022-08-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350002526

This encyclopaedic account of animals in Shakespeare's plays and poems, provides readers with a much-needed resource by which to navigate the recent outpouring of critical and historical work on the topic. This dictionary extends its coverage to include insects, fish and mythic creatures, as well as the places, practices and lore pertaining to all animal-oriented experiences of early modern life. It emphasizes the role of animality in defining character, and is attentive to the instabilities of the human-animal boundary as they were theatrically represented, exploited and interrogated, but it is also concerned with the material presence of animals on stage and in everyday life in Shakespeare's world. The volume is a new tool for instructors, but is also a resource for critics and scholars in the many disciplines engaged with animal studies, posthumanist theory, ecostudies and cultural studies.

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Animals

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Animals
Author: Karen Raber
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 694
Release: 2020-08-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000093433

Shakespeare’s plays have a long and varied performance history. The relevance of his plays in literary studies cannot be understated, but only recently have scholars been looking into the presence and significance of animals within the canon. Readers will quickly find—without having to do extensive research—that the plays are teeming with animals! In this Handbook, Karen Raber and Holly Dugan delve deep into Shakespeare’s World to illuminate and understand the use of animals in his span of work. This volume supplies a valuable resource, offering a broad and thorough grounding in the many ways animal references and the appearance of actual animals in the plays can be interpreted. It provides a thorough overview; demonstrates rigorous, original research; and charts new frontiers in the field through a broad variety of contributions from an international group of well-known and respected scholars.

Shakespeare Among the Animals

Shakespeare Among the Animals
Author: B. Boehrer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2002-03-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230602126

Shakespeare Among the Animals examines the role of animal-metaphor in the Shakespeare stage, particularly as such metaphor serves to underwrite various forms of social difference. Working through texts such as Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream , Jonson's Volpone , and Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside , different chapters of the study focus upon the allegedly natural character of femininity, masculinity, and ethnicity, while a fourth chapter considers the nature of the natural world itself as it appears on the Renaissance stage. Addressing each of these topics in turn, Shakespeare Among the Animals explores the notions of cultural order that underlie early modern conceptions of the natural world, and the ideas of nature implicit in early modern social practice.

Shakespeare's Plants and Gardens: A Dictionary

Shakespeare's Plants and Gardens: A Dictionary
Author: Vivian Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2014-02-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1472558588

Shakespeare lived when knowledge of plants and their uses was a given, but also at a time of unique interest in plants and gardens.His lifetime saw the beginning of scientific interest in plants, the first large-scale plant introductions from outside the country since Roman times, and the beginning of gardening as a leisure activity. Shakespeare's works show that he engaged with this new world to illuminate so many facets of his plays and poems. This dictionary offers a complete companion to Shakespeare's references to landscape, plants and gardens, including both formal and rural settings.It covers plants and flowers, gardening terms, and the activities that Shakespeare included within both cultivated and uncultivated landscapes as well as encompassing garden imagery in relation to politics, the state and personal lives. Each alphabetical entry offers an definition and overview of the term discussed in its historical context, followed by a guided tour of its use in Shakespeare's works and finally an extensive bibliography, including primary and secondary sources, books and articles.

Ecocritical Shakespeare

Ecocritical Shakespeare
Author: Lynne Bruckner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317146441

Can reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare contribute to the health of the planet? To what degree are Shakespeare's plays anthropocentric or ecocentric? What is the connection between the literary and the real when it comes to ecological conduct? This collection, engages with these pressing questions surrounding ecocritical Shakespeare, in order to provide a better understanding of where and how ecocritical readings should be situated. The volume combines multiple critical perspectives, juxtaposing historicism and presentism, as well as considering ecofeminism and pedagogy; and addresses such topics as early modern flora and fauna, and the neglected areas of early modern marine ecology and oceanography. Concluding with an assessment of the challenges-and necessities-of teaching Shakespeare ecocritically, Ecocritical Shakespeare not only broadens the implications of ecocriticism in early modern studies, but represents an important contribution to this growing field.

The Development of Shakespeare's Imagery

The Development of Shakespeare's Imagery
Author: Wolfgang Clemen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135032858

First published in 1951. The edition reprints the second, updated, edition, of 1977. When first published this book quickly established itself as the standard survey of Shakespeare's imagery considered as an integral part of the development of Shakespeare's dramatic art. By illustrating, through the use of examples the progressive stages of Shakespeare's use of imagery, and in relating it to the structure, style and subject matter of the plays, the book throws new light on the dramatist's creative genius. The second edition includes a new preface and an up-to-date bibliography.

Shakespeare's Webs

Shakespeare's Webs
Author: Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135876274

In this book, renowned Renaissance drama critic Arthur F. Kinney argues that Shakespeare's method of composing plays through networks of meanings can be seen as a harbinger of today's information technology. Drawing upon hypertext and cognitive theory--areas that have for some time promised to take on more importance in the sphere of Shakespeare Studies--as well as the central metaphor of the Routledge collection The Renaissance Computer, Kinney looks in detail at four objects/images in Shakespeare's plays--mirrors, maps, clocks, and books--and explores the ways in which they make up networks of meaning within single plays and across the dramatist's body of work that anticipate in some ways the networks of meaning or "information" now possible in the computer age.

Shakespeare's Edward III

Shakespeare's Edward III
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780300066265

Argues the case for naming Shakespeare as the author of "Edward III," and presents the text of the play with an introduction and notes