Renaissance Beasts

 Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Erica Fudge 1. Unpicking the Seam: Talking Animals and Reader Pleasure in Early Modern Satire Kathryn Perry 2. "Bitches and Queens": Pets and Perversion at the Court of France's Henri III Juliana Schiesari 3. Hairy on the Inside: Metamorphosis and Civility in English Werewolf Texts S. J. Wiseman 4. Saying Nothing Concerning the Same: On Dominion, Purity, and Meat in Early Modern England Erica Fudge 5. "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?": Shakespeare's Animations Erica Sheen 6. Government by Beagle: The Impersonal Rule of James VI and I Alan Stewart 7. Reading, Writing, and Riding Horses in Early Modern England: James Shirley's Hyde Park (1632) and Gervase Markham's Cavelarice (1607) Elspeth Graham 8. "Can ye not tell a man from a marmoset?": Apes and Others on the Early Modern Stage James Knowles 9. Pliny's Literate Elephant and the Idea of Animal Language in Renaissance Thought Brian Cummings 10. Reading Vital Signs: Animals and the Experimental Philosophy Peter Harrison 11. The M,nagerie and the Labyrinthe: Animals at Versailles, 1662-1792 Matthew Senior Contributors Index 

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Animals and civilization Europe History 16th century, Animals and civilization Europe History 17th century, Animals (Philosophy) Europe History 16th century, Animals (Philosophy) Europe History 17th century