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  title info:
    title: Hunting Shakespeare's Deer
    sub title: the chase and politics in Early Modern Drama
  name:
    name part: Bonds, Lawrence Ivas.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 355 leaves ; 28 cm.
  abstract: This dissertation proposes a new grouping of Renaissance dramas: deer hunting plays. Deer hunting created important political discourse, for it often replaced warfare as the primary activity of aristocrats as feudalism gave way to early forms of capitalism. Hunting and poaching permitted people aspiring to the aristocracy to demonstrate their fitness for membership. Deer hunting and poaching were the means by which members of all classes asserted violent control over a significant food source: venison. Conflict arose because deer possessed a legally hazy status as both færæ naturæ and, in royal forests, the "King's deer." Nobles regarded deer as their property, but peasants often disputed this claim. Furthermore, the aristocracy often raided each other's deer herds to discharge grievances. Poaching by poor people challenged the power of landowners and constituted an important form of resistance to authority. Thus this study argues that deer hunting and poaching metaphors and plots are fraught with political content. Hunting Shakespeare's Deer employs interdisciplinary methodologies from the New Historicism to analyze key Renaissance dramas as exemplars of deer hunting plays. These dramas include As You Like It, Love's Labour's Lost, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus, The Merry Devil of Edmonton, Arden of Feversham, and The Lady of May. This dissertation relies on anecdotes and visual depictions (such as woodcuts and paintings) as artifacts of resistance to traditional "history." These materials lead to explorations of how hunting and poaching dramas negotiate political and socioeconomic tensions. The processes of population growth and enclosure dispossessed many people from the land. Dispossession increased both poaching and legal proceedings against poachers. Renaissance deer hunting dramas often show people negotiating the process of dispossession. Chapter topics include considerations of the drama and the following: Shakespeare and Queen E…
  note: by Lawrence Ivas Bonds.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: English".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 2003
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 339-354).
  subject:
    topic: Major English
  identifier: 31-15020 UMI
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    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 040813
    record change date: 20190325111023.0
    record identifier: in00001853480