The Stage Lives of Animals

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The Stage Lives of Animals is written by Una Chaudhuri and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 113881847X (ISBN 10) and 9781138818477 (ISBN 13).

Introduction -- (De)facing the animals: zooësis and performance -- Animal rites: performing beyond the human -- Animal geographies: zooësis and the space of modern drama -- "Awk!": extremity, animality, and the aesthetic of awkwardness in Tennessee Williams's The Gnädiges Fräulein -- Zoo stories: boundary work in theater history -- Animalizing interlude: zoöpolis. Becoming rhinoceros: therio-theatricality as problem and promise in western drama -- Bug bytes: insects, information, and interspecies theatricality -- The silence of the polar bears: performing (climate) change in the theater of species -- Queering the green man, reframing the garden: Marina Zurkow's Mesocosm (Northumberland UK) and the theater of species -- War horses and dead tigers: embattled animals in a theater of species -- Interspecies diplomacy in anthropocenic waters: performing an ocean oriented ontology.