Stage, stake, and scaffold: humans and animals in Shakespeare's theatre

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 Höfele argues that this generated a powerful exchange of images and a spill-over of animal features into Shakespeare's characters. INDICE: 1: 'What beast was't then': Stretching the Boundaries in Macbeth; 2: A Kingdom for a Scaffold; 3: 'More than a creeping thing': Baiting Coriolanus; 4: Cannibal - Animal: Figurations of the (In)Human in Montaigne, Foxe and Shakespearean Revenge Tragedy; 5: 'I'll see their trial first': Law and Disorder in Lear's Animal Kingdom; 6: Revels' End: The Tempest and After; Bibliography; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-956764-5
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 336
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés