The Indistinct Human in Renaissance Literature

List of Figures vii Series Editors' Foreword ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Swervings: On Human Indistinction 1 Jean E. Feerick and Vin Nardizzi Part I The Head-Piece 1 The Eight Animals in Shakespeare; or, Before the Human 15 Laurie Shannon Part II Modes of Indistinction Crossings 2 'Half-Fish, Half-Flesh': Dolphins, the Ocean, and Early Modern Humans 29 Steve Mentz 3 Royal Fish: Shakespeare's Princely Whales 47 Dan Brayton Bodily Ingestion 4 You Are What You Eat: Cooking and Writing Across the Species Barrier in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair 69 Jay Zysk 5 'A Bett'ring of Nature': Grafting and Embryonic Development in The Duchess of Malfi 85 Erin Ellerbeck Technologies of Conjunction 6 Bastard Grafts, Crafted Fruits: Shakespeare's Planted Families 103 Miranda Wilson 7 The Wooden Matter of Human Bodies: Prosthesis and Stump in A Larum for London 119 Vin Nardizzi Part III Indistinct Bodies (Un)Sexed Bodies 8 Vegetable Love: Botany and Sexuality in Seventeenth-Century England 139 Marjorie Swann 9 On Vegetating Virgins: Greensickness and the Plant Realm in Early Modern Literature 159 Hillary M. Nunn Stony States 10 A Heart of Stone: The Ungodly in Early Modern England 181 Tiffany Jo Werth 11 Of Stones and Stony Hearts: Desdemona, Hermione, and Post-Reformation Theater 205 Jennifer Waldron Soiled Bodies 12 Groveling with Earth in Kyd and Shakespeare's Historical Tragedies 231 Jean E. Feerick 13 The Politic Worm: Invertebrate Life in the Early Modern English Body 253 Ian MacInnes Notes on Contributors 275 Index 279