Shakespearean primatology: A diptych

Maisano, Scott

doi:10.1057/pmed.2009.3

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“…Richard Rambuss echoes many of the implications of Callaghan's, Raber's, and Boehrer's readings by finding not only animal cross‐species erotic connections throughout A Midsummer Night's Dream , but also “botanical bondage” and Puckish preposterousness (238, 241). In the apes that populate the plays, Scott Maisano finds a possible limit to posthumanist theory, proposing that ape love – the human tendency to care more for those with whom we share kinship – is precisely what links human to non‐human animals (“Shakespearean Primatology”); a more literal version of cross‐species desire, however, is deployed in Holly Dugan's analysis of ape rape, glanced at in Dromio's reaction to Nell's assault the The Comedy of Errors , to construct penetrative heteronormativity (“Aping Rape”).…”

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Shakespeare and Animal Studies

Raber

2015

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This article examines the evolution of criticism that focuses on the representation of animals in Shakespeare. While animals have always been a topic of interest to Shakespeare critics, recent decades have seen the emergence of a coherent body of theoretically informed work that investigates the cultural, material, and ideological work that animals perform. Shakespeare's plays and poems have become the ground from which challenges to the human-animal divide, Cartesian mind-body dualism, and other powerful manifestations of "the anthropological machine" can be successfully mounted. The article considers debates within the field and takes account of new directions in the scholarship, arguing that continued and reciprocal engagement between Shakespeare criticism and animal studies enlivens both.

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