Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Border traffic: Humans and animals in King Lear
Thursday 5 June 2014, 10.00AM
Speaker(s): Andreas Höfele (Munich)
CREMS Graduate Seminar
Reading
- Shakespeare, King Lear, Acts 3-5
Additional reading
- Laurie Shannon "Poor, Bare, Forked: Animal Sovereignty, Human Negative Exceptionalism, and the Natural History of King Lear" Shakespeare Quarterly 60 (2009), 168-196
- Andreas Höfele, Stage, stake, and scaffold : humans and animals in Shakespeare's theatre (OUP, 2011), the sections on King Lear
All of these texts are available electronically
Location: Berrick Saul, BS/008
Admission: Open to Postgraduates
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