Karen Raber is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory (2018) and Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture (2013), and editor with Monica Mattfeld of Performing Animals: History, Agency, Theater (2017). Holly Dugan is an Associate Professor of English at The George Washington University. She is the author of The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England (2011).

• Introduction.Part 1. Animal Metaphors: History, Theory, RepresentationHeadnote 1Chapter 1 Rebecca Ann Bach, "Avian Shakespeare"Chapter 2 Daniel Brayton, "Shakespeare’s Fishponds: Matter, Metaphor, and Market"Chapter 3 Bryan Alkemeyer, "’I am the dog’: Canine Abjection, Species Reversal, and Misanthropic Satire in Two Gentlemen of VeronaChapter 4 Crystal Bartolovich, "Learning from Crab: Primitive Accumulation, Migration, Species Being "Chapter 5 Karl Steel, "Animal Behavior and Metaphor, in Shakespeare and His Fellow Dramatists"Part 2. Scales of MeaningHeadnote 2Chapter 6 Ian MacInnes, "Cow-Cross Lane and Curriers Row: Animal Networks in Early Modern England"Chapter 7 Benjamin Bertram, "’Everything exists by strife’: War and Creaturely Violence in Shakespeare’s Late Tragedies"Chapter 8 Lucinda Cole, "Zoonotic Shakespeare: Animals, Plagues, and the Medical Posthumanities"Chapter 9 Joseph Campana, "Flock, Herd, Swarm: A Shakespearean Lexicon of Creaturely Collectivity"Part 3. Animal Worlds/ Animal Language Headnote 3Chapter 10 Keith Botelho, "Swarm Life: Shakespeare’s School of Insects"Chapter 11 Nicole Jacobs, "‘Where the Bee Sucks’: Bernardian Ecology and the Post-Reformation Animal"Chapter 12 Liza Blake and Kathryn Vomero Santos, "What Does the Wolf Say?: Wolvish Tongues and Animal Language in Coriolanus"Chapter 13 Bruce Boehrer, "Shrewd Shakespeare"Part 4. Training, Performance, and Living with AnimalsHeadnote 4Chapter 14 Elspeth Graham, "The Training Relationship: horses, hawks, dogs, bears and humans"Chapter 15 Todd Borlik, "Performing The Winter’s Tale in the ‘Open’: Bear Plays, Skinners’ Pageants, and the Early Modern Fur TradeChapter 16 Julian Yates, "Counting Shakespeare’s Sheep with The Second Shepherd’s Play"Chapter 17 Laurie Shannon, "Silly Creatures: King Lear (with Sheep)"Part 5. Animal Boundaries and IdentitiesHeadnote 5Chapter 18 Nicole Mennell, "The Lion King: Shakespeare’s Beastly Sovereigns"Chapter 19 Jennifer Reid, "‘Wearing the Horn’: Class and Community in the Shakespearean Hunt"Chapter 20 Steven Swarbrick, "On Eating--the Animal That Therefore I Am: Race and Animal Rites in Titus Andronicus"Chapter 21 Rob Wakeman, "’What’s this? what’s this?’: Stockfish and Piscine Sexuality in Measure for Measure"Chapter 22 Karen Raber, "My Palfrey, Myself: Toward a Queer Phenomenology of the Horse-Human Bond in Henry V and Beyond"Chapter 23 Erica Fudge, "‘Forgiveness, horse’: The Barbaric World of Richard II"Appendix

Karen Raber is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory (2018) and Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture (2013), and editor with Monica Mattfeld of Performing Animals: History, Agency, Theater (2017). Holly Dugan is an Associate Professor of English at The George Washington University. She is the author of The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England (2011).

• Introduction.Part 1. Animal Metaphors: History, Theory, RepresentationHeadnote 1Chapter 1 Rebecca Ann Bach, "Avian Shakespeare"Chapter 2 Daniel Brayton, "Shakespeare’s Fishponds: Matter, Metaphor, and Market"Chapter 3 Bryan Alkemeyer, "’I am the dog’: Canine Abjection, Species Reversal, and Misanthropic Satire in Two Gentlemen of VeronaChapter 4 Crystal Bartolovich, "Learning from Crab: Primitive Accumulation, Migration, Species Being "Chapter 5 Karl Steel, "Animal Behavior and Metaphor, in Shakespeare and His Fellow Dramatists"Part 2. Scales of MeaningHeadnote 2Chapter 6 Ian MacInnes, "Cow-Cross Lane and Curriers Row: Animal Networks in Early Modern England"Chapter 7 Benjamin Bertram, "’Everything exists by strife’: War and Creaturely Violence in Shakespeare’s Late Tragedies"Chapter 8 Lucinda Cole, "Zoonotic Shakespeare: Animals, Plagues, and the Medical Posthumanities"Chapter 9 Joseph Campana, "Flock, Herd, Swarm: A Shakespearean Lexicon of Creaturely Collectivity"Part 3. Animal Worlds/ Animal Language Headnote 3Chapter 10 Keith Botelho, "Swarm Life: Shakespeare’s School of Insects"Chapter 11 Nicole Jacobs, "‘Where the Bee Sucks’: Bernardian Ecology and the Post-Reformation Animal"Chapter 12 Liza Blake and Kathryn Vomero Santos, "What Does the Wolf Say?: Wolvish Tongues and Animal Language in Coriolanus"Chapter 13 Bruce Boehrer, "Shrewd Shakespeare"Part 4. Training, Performance, and Living with AnimalsHeadnote 4Chapter 14 Elspeth Graham, "The Training Relationship: horses, hawks, dogs, bears and humans"Chapter 15 Todd Borlik, "Performing The Winter’s Tale in the ‘Open’: Bear Plays, Skinners’ Pageants, and the Early Modern Fur TradeChapter 16 Julian Yates, "Counting Shakespeare’s Sheep with The Second Shepherd’s Play"Chapter 17 Laurie Shannon, "Silly Creatures: King Lear (with Sheep)"Part 5. Animal Boundaries and IdentitiesHeadnote 5Chapter 18 Nicole Mennell, "The Lion King: Shakespeare’s Beastly Sovereigns"Chapter 19 Jennifer Reid, "‘Wearing the Horn’: Class and Community in the Shakespearean Hunt"Chapter 20 Steven Swarbrick, "On Eating--the Animal That Therefore I Am: Race and Animal Rites in Titus Andronicus"Chapter 21 Rob Wakeman, "’What’s this? what’s this?’: Stockfish and Piscine Sexuality in Measure for Measure"Chapter 22 Karen Raber, "My Palfrey, Myself: Toward a Queer Phenomenology of the Horse-Human Bond in Henry V and Beyond"Chapter 23 Erica Fudge, "‘Forgiveness, horse’: The Barbaric World of Richard II"Appendix

Karen Raber is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory (2018) and Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture (2013), and editor with Monica Mattfeld of Performing Animals: History, Agency, Theater (2017). Holly Dugan is an Associate Professor of English at The George Washington University. She is the author of The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England (2011).

• Introduction.Part 1. Animal Metaphors: History, Theory, RepresentationHeadnote 1Chapter 1 Rebecca Ann Bach, "Avian Shakespeare"Chapter 2 Daniel Brayton, "Shakespeare’s Fishponds: Matter, Metaphor, and Market"Chapter 3 Bryan Alkemeyer, "’I am the dog’: Canine Abjection, Species Reversal, and Misanthropic Satire in Two Gentlemen of VeronaChapter 4 Crystal Bartolovich, "Learning from Crab: Primitive Accumulation, Migration, Species Being "Chapter 5 Karl Steel, "Animal Behavior and Metaphor, in Shakespeare and His Fellow Dramatists"Part 2. Scales of MeaningHeadnote 2Chapter 6 Ian MacInnes, "Cow-Cross Lane and Curriers Row: Animal Networks in Early Modern England"Chapter 7 Benjamin Bertram, "’Everything exists by strife’: War and Creaturely Violence in Shakespeare’s Late Tragedies"Chapter 8 Lucinda Cole, "Zoonotic Shakespeare: Animals, Plagues, and the Medical Posthumanities"Chapter 9 Joseph Campana, "Flock, Herd, Swarm: A Shakespearean Lexicon of Creaturely Collectivity"Part 3. Animal Worlds/ Animal Language Headnote 3Chapter 10 Keith Botelho, "Swarm Life: Shakespeare’s School of Insects"Chapter 11 Nicole Jacobs, "‘Where the Bee Sucks’: Bernardian Ecology and the Post-Reformation Animal"Chapter 12 Liza Blake and Kathryn Vomero Santos, "What Does the Wolf Say?: Wolvish Tongues and Animal Language in Coriolanus"Chapter 13 Bruce Boehrer, "Shrewd Shakespeare"Part 4. Training, Performance, and Living with AnimalsHeadnote 4Chapter 14 Elspeth Graham, "The Training Relationship: horses, hawks, dogs, bears and humans"Chapter 15 Todd Borlik, "Performing The Winter’s Tale in the ‘Open’: Bear Plays, Skinners’ Pageants, and the Early Modern Fur TradeChapter 16 Julian Yates, "Counting Shakespeare’s Sheep with The Second Shepherd’s Play"Chapter 17 Laurie Shannon, "Silly Creatures: King Lear (with Sheep)"Part 5. Animal Boundaries and IdentitiesHeadnote 5Chapter 18 Nicole Mennell, "The Lion King: Shakespeare’s Beastly Sovereigns"Chapter 19 Jennifer Reid, "‘Wearing the Horn’: Class and Community in the Shakespearean Hunt"Chapter 20 Steven Swarbrick, "On Eating--the Animal That Therefore I Am: Race and Animal Rites in Titus Andronicus"Chapter 21 Rob Wakeman, "’What’s this? what’s this?’: Stockfish and Piscine Sexuality in Measure for Measure"Chapter 22 Karen Raber, "My Palfrey, Myself: Toward a Queer Phenomenology of the Horse-Human Bond in Henry V and Beyond"Chapter 23 Erica Fudge, "‘Forgiveness, horse’: The Barbaric World of Richard II"Appendix