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portada Stage, Stake, and Scaffold: Humans and Animals in Shakespeare's Theatre
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2011
Language
English
Pages
315
Format
Hardcover
Weight
1.45
ISBN13
9780199567645
Edition No.
1
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Stage, Stake, and Scaffold: Humans and Animals in Shakespeare's Theatre

Andreas Hofele (Author) · Oxford University Press · Hardcover

Stage, Stake, and Scaffold: Humans and Animals in Shakespeare's Theatre - Andreas Hofele

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

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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