Through a series of case studies, this book explores the role of live animals on the stage, from the early modern era to the present time. The contributors deal

From bears on the Renaissance stage to the equine pageantry of the nineteenth-century hunt, animals have been used in human-orchestrated entertainments througho

Lourdes Orozco considers different representations of animals in performance; suggesting that all animals have the ability to make us question the human, and it

The Stage Lives of Animals examines what it might mean to make theatre beyond the human. In this stunning collection of essays, Una Chaudhuri engages with the a

This book explores how the English rural has been represented in contemporary theatre and performance. Exploring a range of plays, forms, and contexts of theatr