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Title Shakespeare and the human. 15, Special section / general editors, Tom Bishop and Alexa Huang ; guest editor, Tiffany Jo Werth
Published London : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 221 pages, 2 leaves of plates) : illustrations
Series The Shakespearean International Yearbook ; v. 15
Shakespearean international yearbook ; 15.
Contents 1. Introduction : Shakespeare and the human / Tiffany Jo Werth -- 2. Airy spirits : winds, bodies, and ecological force in early modern England / Steve Mentz -- 3. Humans : exceptional humans, human exceptionalism, and the shape of things to come / Joseph Campana -- 4. Birds : Shakespeare's tweets : a choir / Tom Bishop, Jean E. Howard, Gordan McMullan, and Vin Nardizzi -- 5. Hybrids : animal law and the Actaeon myth in Titus Andronicus / Miranda Garno Nesler -- 6. Fleece : the craziest transport : fleecing the non-human Merchant of Venice / Lowell Duckert -- 7. Bees : the Shakespearean hive and the virtues of honey / Nicole A. Jacobs -- 8. Plants : Shakespeare's mulberry : eco-materialism and "Living on" / Todd A. Borlik -- 9. Water : absorption, uncontainment, and Cleopatra's barge / Ellen MacKay -- 10. Shells : Pericles and the fantasy of shell-dwelling / Shannon Kelley -- 11. Rocks : "Sure and firm-set earth" : Shakespeare, stone, and structuration / Andrew Tumminia -- 12. Tail : "Poore wretch ... laid all naked on the bare earth" : human negative exceptionalism among the humanists / Laurie Shannon
Notes Originally published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Shakespeare and the human
Form Electronic book
Author Werth, Tiffany Jo
Bishop, Tom, 1960-
Joubin, Alexa Alice, 1973-
ISBN 9781315264233
1315264234