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7 de jul. de 2024 · This chapter looks at Edward Topsell’s History of Four-footed Beasts (1607) and other contemporaneous natural historical writings on apes, in order to delineate the scientific background to which playwrights were responding. It traces the history and literary uses of the early modern monkey back into the classical period, through its resonances in the middle ages and onto the Shakespearean ...
7 de jul. de 2024 · This chapter is mainly about one masque-wright—James Shirley (1596–1666)—who used absent-present jokes in his The Triumph of Peace (1634), and who actually staged a troupe of monkeys in Cupid and Death (1653). The intrinsic metatheatricality of apes meant that Shirley could use audience recollections of ‘baboons / In quellios’ to enable his ritual strategy for Peace to negotiate the ...
