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1 online resource : illustrations |
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The law's first subjects: animal stakeholders, human tyranny, and the political life of early modern genesis -- A cat may look upon a king: four-footed estate, locomotion, and the prerogative of free animals -- Poor, bare, forked: animal happiness and the zoographic critique of humanity -- Night-rule: the alternative politics of the dark; or, Empires of the nonhuman -- Hang-dog looks: from subjects at law to objects of science in animal trials |
| Summary |
Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastifss, and hell-hounds. But he used the word 'animal' only eight times in his work - which was typical for the 16th century, when the word was rarely used. As Laurie Shannon reveals in this book, the animal-human divide first came strongly into play in the 17th century, with Descartes's famous formulation that reason sets humans above other species: 'I think, therefore I am' |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. fast (OCoLC)fst00029048 |
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Animals in literature.
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Human-animal relationships in literature.
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Animals
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Literature
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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Animals in literature.
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Human-animal relationships in literature.
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Tiere Motiv
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Mensch Motiv
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226924182 |
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0226924181 |
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9781283833714 |
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1283833719 |
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