Apes and Monkeys on the Early Modern Stage, 1603–1659 [electronic resource] /
by Teresa Grant.
- 1st ed. 2024.
- XVI, 316 p. 17 illus., 12 illus. in color. online resource.
- Early Modern Literature in History, 2634-5927 .
- Early Modern Literature in History, .
1. The Renaissance Animal: Critics and Contexts -- 2. The Renaissance Monkey -- 3. ‘Somewhat Like A Man’: Apes, Boy Players, Women -- 4. Vir-tue: Being a Man -- 5. Bacon’s Antimasquing Baboons -- 6. The Memorable Masque, 1613 -- 7. Beaumont and Fletcher (with Shakespeare) -- 8. Apes, Indigeneity and the Early Modern Travel Narrative -- 9. A Brace of Court Apes: James Shirley’s Masques -- 10. “Sir William and His Apes”: Davenant, monkeys and the staging of disorder -- 11. The End of the Antique Measures. .