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Liggett, Leticia C.

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The animal trials of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" and "King Lear": Law and ethics.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The animal trials of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" and "King Lear": Law and ethics./
Author:	Liggett, Leticia C.
Description:	258 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-04A(E).
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3666204
ISBN:	9781321391275

The animal trials of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" and "King Lear": Law and ethics.
Liggett, Leticia C.

The animal trials of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" and "King Lear": Law and ethics. - 258 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2014.

This dissertation examines allusions to historical animal trials in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice (1596-97) and History of King Lear (1608). It contends that these plays engage an historical moment in which animals were attributed a legal status within secular and ecclesiastical courts. The judicial prosecution and punishment of animals were common practices in medieval and early modern continental Europe and likely occurred in England and Scotland as well. Of the 191 animal trials recorded during the ninth through twentieth centuries, 159 occurred in the fifteenth through seventeenth. In this study, I am concerned with the ways in which Merchant and Lear draw upon the history of these trials to depict human legal subjects---the ethical agents whose intent as well as actions are under close scrutiny in these plays. In both plays, the nature of human legal subjects---their character as well as their capacity to carry out cruelty---is depicted as never far removed from those justiciable animals that were held accountable by legal tribunals for their causing harm.

ISBN: 9781321391275Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.

The animal trials of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" and "King Lear": Law and ethics.
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520 $a My argument traces how animal trials provide a narrative that contains the contradictions explored within Merchant and Lear: for example, when Shylock's enemies depict and treat him like an animal while also expecting him to participate in contractual legal relationships that presume his humanity; when Lear's daughters have allegedly committed a particularly human act of cruelty---that of ingratitude---yet he "arraign[s]" them as "she-foxes" in the Quarto's mock trial (3.6.15, 18-19). In Merchant, I investigate how Gratiano's depiction of Shylock as a wolf "hang'd for human slaughter" both dehumanizes and aligns Shylock with a justiciable animal (4.1.134). Yet, Shylock's embodied awareness of how his experiences shape his legal intent enables him to resist his enemies' attempts to undermine his humanity. In analyzing Lear, I argue that in the mock trial, Lear projects human evil onto animal defendants; he thereby avoids a paralyzing dilemma arising from his belief that, in response to ingratitude, he can only act vengefully or weep passively. Rather than perceive humans as having descended to the bestial, he locates the bestial only within the beast.
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