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Birds and Other Creatures in Renaissance Literature : Shakespeare, Descartes, and Animal Studies / Rebecca Ann Bach.

Contents: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Texts -- Introduction: Inequality for All -- 1 Feathers, Wings, and Souls -- 2 The Creaturely Continuum in A Midsummer Night's Dream -- 3 The Lively Creaturely/Object World of The Rape of Lucrece -- 4 Falstaff and "the Modern Constitution" -- 5 The Winter's Tale's Pedestrian and Elite Creatures -- 6 Human Grandiosity/Human Responsibility -- Bibliography -- Name and Author Index -- Subject Index.