Performing Animals:: History, Agency, Theater School stories (Children's / Teenage) the dairy farmer's daughter

the dairy farmer's daughter

Melded with social commentary around race

but a beguiling and necessary one

but that he really wants to claim her as his bride

Performing Animals:: History, Agency, Theater School stories (Children's / Teenage) the dairy farmer's daughterFrom bears on the Renaissance stage to the equine pageantry of the nineteenth century hunt, animals have been used in human orchestrated entertainments throughout history. The essays in this volume present an array of case studies that inspire new ways of interpreting animal performance and the role of animal agency in the performing relationship. In exploring the human animal relationship from the early modern period to the nineteenth century,