Performing Animals: History, Agency, Theater

Notes

In exploring the human-animal relationship from the early modern period to the nineteenth century, this publication questions what it means for an animal to “perform,” examines how conceptions of this relationship have evolved over time, and explores whether and how human understanding of performance is changed by an animal’s presence.

Editor Karen Raber, Monica Mattfeld
Publisher Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN 978-0271078342
Reference P3704
Date 2017
Type Publication

Keywords

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