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Biographical note: Jeanne Krochalis is Associate Professor Emeritus of English at Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington. Edward Peters is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Biographical note: Jeanne Krochalis is Associate Professor Emeritus of English at Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington. Edward Peters is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
1. The book of sport -- 2. The hawk and the handsaw -- 3. The ritual of the hunt -- 4. 'The pleasant'st angling' -- 5. 'Incorps'd and demi-natur'd' -- 6. A review of bowmen -- 7. A note on Shakespeare's army -- 8. The images of Antony and Cleopatra....
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1. The book of sport -- 2. The hawk and the handsaw -- 3. The ritual of the hunt -- 4. 'The pleasant'st angling' -- 5. 'Incorps'd and demi-natur'd' -- 6. A review of bowmen -- 7. A note on Shakespeare's army -- 8. The images of Antony and Cleopatra. Annotation First published in 1972. The imagery of field sports - of hawking, hunting, shooting and fishing - and the associated imagery of warfare are a striking feature in Shakespeare's plays. The Living Imageexamines the nature of this imagery, considering it first in the light of the practices and techniques of Elizabethan field sports and weaponry and then its broader metaphoric significance in relation to the themes of the plays. The contemporary associations of the imagery - the inferences of female sexuality and waywardness from hawking imagery, for example, and the ideals of nobility and courage attached to images of hunting and war are all discussed
