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Stage, Stake, and Scaffold Humans and Animals in Shakespeare's Theatre

Höfele, Andreas
Innbundet / 2011 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780199567645
Publisert
2011
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
656 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter
Höfele, Andreas

Biographical note

Andreas Höfele is Professor of English at Munich University. His publications include books on Shakespeare's stagecraft, late 19th-century parody and on Malcolm Lowry, as well as numerous articles on Renaissance and 20th-century themes and six novels. He is a member of the Heidelberg and of the Bavarian Academies of Science and President of the German Shakespeare Society.

Stage, Stake, and Scaffold Humans and Animals in Shakespeare's Theatre

Höfele, Andreas
Innbundet / 2011 / Engelsk
Höfele, Andreas
Innbundet / 2011 / Engelsk
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[a] sophisticated study of how early modern Europeans conceived of the human being in relation to other species.

Russ McDonald, Times Literary Supplement

[a] diverting study

Steven Poole, The Guardian

Stage, Stake and Scaffold is an excellent part of the growing field of animal studies within the broader study of Shakespeares work. Höfele's work has much to offer for scholars interested in Shakespeares works, staging practices, and the culture of spectacle and violence that informs Renaissance dramatic literature and history.

Marina Gerzic, Parergon - Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

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This is fascinating stuff

The Stage

Andreas Höfele's Stage, Stake, and Scaffold provides themost complete exploration yet of the relation between Shakespeares theater and the spectacles of blood sport and criminal punishment concurrently available to the poets original audiences ... such impressive depth and precision

Bruce Boehrer, Modern Philology

Stage, Stake, and Scaffold is, however, an often subtle and hugely enjoyable book, which offers fresh, persuasive readings of the Shakespeare canon and challenges us to recognise the complex collusions of bloodsport, punishment and play.

Helen Smith, Literature & History

... an illuminating, intriguing, and thoroughly researched work ... Stage, Stake and Scaffold can offer those working on animals in Shakespeare, specifically the dualism between man and beast, a refreshing new take on the role and importance of actual and metaphorical animals and creatures in Shakespearean drama.

Kimbrina Davey, Notes and Queries

The powerful exchanges between stage, stake, and scaffold - the theatre, the bear garden and the spectacle of public execution - crucially informed Shakespeare's explorations into the construction and workings of 'the human'. The theatre's family resemblance to animal baiting and the spectacle of punishment, its sharing of the same basic type of performance space - a theatre-in-the-round, a scaffold, stake or platform surrounded by spectators - bred an ever-ready potential for a transfer of images and meanings. The staging of one of these kinds of performance is always framed by an awareness of the other two, whose presence is never quite erased and often, indeed, emphatically foregrounded. Situating Shakespearean drama within its material environment, Andreas Höfele explores how this spill-over affects the way Shakespeare models his human characters and his understanding of 'human character' in general. His dramatis personae are infused with a degree of animality that a later, more specifically Cartesian, anthropology would categorically efface. Readings based on such an anthropology tend to reduce Shakespeare's teeming multitude of animal references to a stable marker of moral, social, and ontological difference, 'beast' being everything 'man' is not or ought not to be. In contrast, Höfele argues that Shakespearean notions of humanity rely just as much on inclusion as on exclusion of the animal. Humans and animals face each other across the species divide, but the divide proves highly permeable.
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In Shakespeare's London, the stage of the playhouse, the stake of the bear baiting arena, and the scaffold of public execution constituted an ensemble of related spectacles that shared the same audiences. Andreas Höfele argues that this generated a powerful exchange of images and a spill-over of animal features into Shakespeare's characters.
Les mer
BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
A fascinating new angle on early modern theatre with fresh readings of major Shakespeare plays Reveals the remarkable similarities between the stage of the playhouse, the bear-baiting arena, and the scaffold of public execution An insight into the significance of spectacle in Shakespeare's London Participates in the highly topical human/animal debate
Les mer
Andreas Höfele is Professor of English at Munich University. His publications include books on Shakespeare's stagecraft, late 19th-century parody and on Malcolm Lowry, as well as numerous articles on Renaissance and 20th-century themes and six novels. He is a member of the Heidelberg and of the Bavarian Academies of Science and President of the German Shakespeare Society.
Les mer
A fascinating new angle on early modern theatre with fresh readings of major Shakespeare plays Reveals the remarkable similarities between the stage of the playhouse, the bear-baiting arena, and the scaffold of public execution An insight into the significance of spectacle in Shakespeare's London Participates in the highly topical human/animal debate
Les mer

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[a] sophisticated study of how early modern Europeans conceived of the human being in relation to other species.

Russ McDonald, Times Literary Supplement

[a] diverting study

Steven Poole, The Guardian

Stage, Stake and Scaffold is an excellent part of the growing field of animal studies within the broader study of Shakespeares work. Höfele's work has much to offer for scholars interested in Shakespeares works, staging practices, and the culture of spectacle and violence that informs Renaissance dramatic literature and history.

Marina Gerzic, Parergon - Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Se alle

This is fascinating stuff

The Stage

Andreas Höfele's Stage, Stake, and Scaffold provides themost complete exploration yet of the relation between Shakespeares theater and the spectacles of blood sport and criminal punishment concurrently available to the poets original audiences ... such impressive depth and precision

Bruce Boehrer, Modern Philology

Stage, Stake, and Scaffold is, however, an often subtle and hugely enjoyable book, which offers fresh, persuasive readings of the Shakespeare canon and challenges us to recognise the complex collusions of bloodsport, punishment and play.

Helen Smith, Literature & History

... an illuminating, intriguing, and thoroughly researched work ... Stage, Stake and Scaffold can offer those working on animals in Shakespeare, specifically the dualism between man and beast, a refreshing new take on the role and importance of actual and metaphorical animals and creatures in Shakespearean drama.

Kimbrina Davey, Notes and Queries

The powerful exchanges between stage, stake, and scaffold - the theatre, the bear garden and the spectacle of public execution - crucially informed Shakespeare's explorations into the construction and workings of 'the human'. The theatre's family resemblance to animal baiting and the spectacle of punishment, its sharing of the same basic type of performance space - a theatre-in-the-round, a scaffold, stake or platform surrounded by spectators - bred an ever-ready potential for a transfer of images and meanings. The staging of one of these kinds of performance is always framed by an awareness of the other two, whose presence is never quite erased and often, indeed, emphatically foregrounded. Situating Shakespearean drama within its material environment, Andreas Höfele explores how this spill-over affects the way Shakespeare models his human characters and his understanding of 'human character' in general. His dramatis personae are infused with a degree of animality that a later, more specifically Cartesian, anthropology would categorically efface. Readings based on such an anthropology tend to reduce Shakespeare's teeming multitude of animal references to a stable marker of moral, social, and ontological difference, 'beast' being everything 'man' is not or ought not to be. In contrast, Höfele argues that Shakespearean notions of humanity rely just as much on inclusion as on exclusion of the animal. Humans and animals face each other across the species divide, but the divide proves highly permeable.
Les mer
In Shakespeare's London, the stage of the playhouse, the stake of the bear baiting arena, and the scaffold of public execution constituted an ensemble of related spectacles that shared the same audiences. Andreas Höfele argues that this generated a powerful exchange of images and a spill-over of animal features into Shakespeare's characters.
Les mer
BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
A fascinating new angle on early modern theatre with fresh readings of major Shakespeare plays Reveals the remarkable similarities between the stage of the playhouse, the bear-baiting arena, and the scaffold of public execution An insight into the significance of spectacle in Shakespeare's London Participates in the highly topical human/animal debate
Les mer
Andreas Höfele is Professor of English at Munich University. His publications include books on Shakespeare's stagecraft, late 19th-century parody and on Malcolm Lowry, as well as numerous articles on Renaissance and 20th-century themes and six novels. He is a member of the Heidelberg and of the Bavarian Academies of Science and President of the German Shakespeare Society.
Les mer
A fascinating new angle on early modern theatre with fresh readings of major Shakespeare plays Reveals the remarkable similarities between the stage of the playhouse, the bear-baiting arena, and the scaffold of public execution An insight into the significance of spectacle in Shakespeare's London Participates in the highly topical human/animal debate
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199567645
Publisert
2011
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
656 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter
Höfele, Andreas

Biographical note

Andreas Höfele is Professor of English at Munich University. His publications include books on Shakespeare's stagecraft, late 19th-century parody and on Malcolm Lowry, as well as numerous articles on Renaissance and 20th-century themes and six novels. He is a member of the Heidelberg and of the Bavarian Academies of Science and President of the German Shakespeare Society.

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