This title 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", di[...]
Bruce Boehrer's book is the first general history of the Shakespearean stage to focus primarily on ecological issues.[...]