Stage, stake, and scaffold : humans and animals in Shakespeare's theatre / Andreas Höfele.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

xii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

'What beast was't then?': stretching the boundaries in Macbeth -- A kingdom for a scaffold -- 'More than a creeping thing': baiting Coriolanus -- Cannibal, animal: figurations of the (in)human in Montaigne, Foxe, and Shakespearean revenge tragedy -- 'I'll see their trial first': law and disorder in Lear's Animal kingdom -- Revels' end: The tempest and after.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-306) and index.