Shakespeare and the Hunt: A Cultural and Social Study

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Cambridge University Press, 2001 M04 19 - 253 pages
Shakespeare and the Hunt is the first book-length study of Shakespeare's works in relation to the culture of the hunt in Elizabethan and Jacobean society. Situating Shakespeare's works in this rich cultural context, Berry illuminates the plays from fresh angles. He explores, for example, the role of poaching in The Merry Wives of Windsor; the paradox of pastoral hunting in As You Like It; the intertwining of hunting and politics in The Tempest; and the gendered language of falconry in The Taming of the Shrew.
 

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Edward Berry is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.

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