The &amp;quot;ill kill'd&amp;quot; Deer: Poaching and Social Order in The Merry Wives of Windsor

Theis, Jeffrey

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“…Meat's origins in the hunt preoccupy not only Estok, but a host of essays and books on early modern hunting: although Edward Berry's Shakespeare and the Hunt , for instance, is not concerned with animals per se , it offers a useful account of falconry in Taming of the Shrew (95–132). Chris Fitter's work on the hunted deer in As You Like It , again not quite “animal studies,” nevertheless deals with the political significance of meat‐eating vs. vegetarianism (“The Slain Deer”), while Jeffrey Theis finds the hunt – and its alternative, poaching – most revelatory of social organization in The Merry Wives of Winter (“ The ‘Ill Kill'd Deer’ ”).…”

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Shakespeare and Animal Studies

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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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Hunting and the Politics of Violence before the English Civil War

Beaver

2008

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Hunting and the Politics of Violence before the English Civil War A major contribution to debates about the origins of the Civil War, this study of English forests and hunting from the late sixteenth century to the early 1640s explores their significance in the symbolism and effective power of royalty and the nobility in early modern England. Blending social, cultural, and political history, Daniel Beaver examines the interrelationships among four local communities to explain the violent political conflicts in the forests in the years leading up to the Civil War. Adopting a micro-historical approach, the book explores how local politics became bound up with national political and ideological divisions. The author argues that, from the early seventeenth century, a politics of land use in forests and other hunting reserves involved its participants in a sophisticated political discourse, touching on the principles of law and justice, the authority of the crown, and the nature of a commonwealth.

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Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare

Bromley

2011

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James Bromley argues that Renaissance texts circulate knowledge about a variety of non-standard sexual practices and intimate life narratives, including non-monogamy, anal eroticism, masochism and cross-racial female homoeroticism. Rethinking current assumptions about intimacy in Renaissance drama, poetry and prose, the book blends historicized and queer approaches to embodiment, narrative and temporality. An important contribution to Renaissance literary studies, queer theory and the history of sexuality, the book demonstrates the relevance of Renaissance literature to today. Through close readings of William Shakespeare's 'problem comedies', Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander, plays by Beaumont and Fletcher, Thomas Middleton's The Nice Valour and Lady Mary Wroth's sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and her prose romance The Urania, Bromley re-evaluates notions of the centrality of deep, abiding affection in Renaissance culture and challenges our own investment in a narrowly defined intimate sphere.

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The "ill kill'd" Deer: Poaching and Social Order in The Merry Wives of Windsor

Cited by 11 publications

References 35 publications

Shakespeare and Animal Studies

Shakespeare and Animal Studies

Hunting and the Politics of Violence before the English Civil War

Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare

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