Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture write by Natália Pikli. This book was released on 2021-08-26. Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s. Natália Pikli approaches this study with a thorough and interdisciplinary examination of hobby-horse references, with commentary on the polysemous uses of the word, offers an informative background to reconsider well-known texts by Shakespeare and others, and provides an overview on the workings of cultural memory regarding popular culture in early modern England. The book will appeal to those with interest in early modern drama and theatre, dramaturgy, popular culture, cultural memory, and iconography.
The Horse as Cultural Icon
The Horse as Cultural Icon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Horse as Cultural Icon write by Peter Edwards. This book was released on 2011-10-14. The Horse as Cultural Icon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In modern Western society horses appear as unexpected visitors: not quite exotic, but not familiar either. This estrangement between humans and horses is a recent one since, until the 1930s, horses were fully present in the everyday world. Indeed, as well as performing utilitarian functions, horses possessed iconic appeal. But, despite the importance of horses, scholars have paid little attention to their lives, roles and meanings. This volume helps to redress the balance. It considers the value that the influential elite placed on horses as essential accompaniments to their way of life and as status symbols, as well as the role that horses played in society as a whole and the people who used and cared for them. Contributors include Greg Bankoff, Pia F. Cuneo, Louise Hill Curth, Amanda Eisemann, Jennifer Flaherty, Ian F. MacInnes, Richard Nash, Gavin Robinson, Elizabeth Anne Socolow, Sandra Swart, Elizabeth M. Tobey, Andrea Tonni, and Elaine Walker.
The Culture of the Horse
The Culture of the Horse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Culture of the Horse write by K. Raber. This book was released on 2016-04-30. The Culture of the Horse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume fills an important gap in the analysis of early modern history and culture by reintroducing scholars to the significance of the horse. A more complete understanding of the role of horses and horsemanship is absolutely crucial to our understanding of the early modern world. Each essay in the collection provides a snapshot of how horse culture and the broader culture - that tapestry of images, objects, structures, sounds, gestures, texts, and ideas - articulate. Without knowledge of how the horse figured in all these aspects, no version of political, material, or intellectual culture in the period can be entirely accurate.
The Horse in Early Modern English Culture
The Horse in Early Modern English Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Horse in Early Modern English Culture write by Kevin De Ornellas. This book was released on 2013-11-18. The Horse in Early Modern English Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kevin De Ornellas argues that in Renaissance England the relationship between horse and rider works as an unambiguous symbol of domination by the strong over the weak. There was little sentimental concern for animal welfare, leading to the routine abuse of the material animal. This unproblematic, practical exploitation of the horse led to the currency of the horse/rider relationship as a trope or symbol of exploitation in the literature of the period. Engaging with fiction, plays, poems, and non-fictional prose works of late Tudor and early Stuart England, De Ornellas demonstrates that the horse—a bridled, unwilling slave—becomes a yardstick against which the oppression of England’s poor, women, increasingly uninfluential clergyman, and deluded gamblers is measured. The status of the bitted, harnessed horse was a low one in early modern England—to be compared to such a beast is a demonstration of inferiority and subjugation. To think anything else is to be naïve about the realities of horse management in the period and is to be naïve about the realities of the exploitation of horses and other mammals in the present-day world.
Horse and Man in Early Modern England
Horse and Man in Early Modern England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Horse and Man in Early Modern England write by Peter Edwards. This book was released on 2007-05-22. Horse and Man in Early Modern England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shows how, in pre-industrial England, horses were bred and trained, what they ate, how much they were worth, how long they lived, and what their owners thought of them. While they were named individually, and sometimes became favourites, many were worked hard and poorly treated, leading to their early deaths.
