The Shakespearean international yearbook. 15, Special section, Shakespeare and the human /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Other Authors:	Bishop, Tom (Editor), Huang, Alexa (Editor), Werth, Tiffany Jo (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, [2015]
Series:	Shakespearean international yearbook ; 15.
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Study and teaching > Technological innovations. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. SPORTS & RECREATION / General Literature and society > History > 16th century > Technological innovations. Literature and society > History > 17th century > Technological innovations. Human beings in literature. Humanity in literature. DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh HumanitaÌˆt. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Shakespeare and the Human
Airy spirits: winds, bodies, and ecological force in early modern England
Humans: exceptional humans, human exceptionalism, and the shape of things to come
Birds: Shakespeare's tweets: a choir
Hybrids: animal law and the acttaeon myth in Titus Andronicus
Fleece: the craziest transport: fleecing the non/human Merchant of Venice
Bees: the Shakespearean hive and the virtues of honey
Plants: Shakespeare's mulberry: eco-materialism and "living on"
Water: absorption, uncontainment, and Cleopatra's barge
Shells: Pericles and the fantasy of shell-dwelling
Rocks: "sure and frim-set earth": Shakespeare, stone, and structuration
Tail: "Poore wretch... laid all naked on the bare earth": human negative exceptionalism among the humanisits.