Liminal Anthropology in Shakespeare’s Plays

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Literary Sites of the Human
5. Liminal Anthropology in Shakespeare’s Plays 21
6. The Space of the Human and the Place of the Poet: Excursions into English Topographical Poetry 41
7. Religious Beings
8. Among the Fairies: Religion and the Anthropology of Ritual in Shakespeare 71
9. Golding’s Metamorphoses, Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Puritan Anthropology 91
10. Negotiating the Foreign
11. When Golden times convents: Shakespeare’s Eastern Promise 109
12. “Cony Caught by Walking Mort”: Indigenous Exoticism in the Literature of Roguery 137
13. Renaissance Anthropologies of Security: Shipwreck, Barbary fear and the Meaning of ‘Insurance’ 157
14. Human and Non-Human
15. Shakespeare’s Public Animals 185
16. “Fellow-brethren and compeers”: Montaigne’s Rapprochement Between Man and Animal 199
17. Animal Art /Human Art: Imagined Borderlines in the Renaissance 217
18. Thinking the Human
19. “Now they’re substances and men”: The Masque of Lethe and the Recovery of Humankind 247
20. Shakespeare Ever After: Posthumanism and Shakespeare 261
21. Index 279