Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Karen Raber and Monica Mattfeld
1 Animals at the Table: Performing Meat in Early Modern England and Europe Karen Raber
2 Intra-Active Performativity: Rethinking the Early Modern Equestrian Portrait Pia F. Cuneo
3 Past Performances: Gleanings from the Archives About Early Modern Equine Athletic Performance Richard Nash
4 “I See Them Galloping!”: War, Affect, and Performing Horses in Matthew Lewis’s Timour the Tartar Monica Mattfeld
5 Peaceable Kingdom: The Place of the Dog at the Nativity Scene Rob Wakeman
6 Performing Pain: The Suffering Animal in Early Modern Experiment Sarah E. Parker
7 Circus Minimus: The Early Modern Theater of Insects Jessica Wolfe
8 Shakespeare’s Insect Theater: Fairy Lore as Elizabethan Folk Entomology Todd Andrew Borlik
9 Miss Mazeppa and the Horse with No Name Kari Weil
10 Horses Queer the Stage and Society of Shenandoah Kim Marra
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index