The accommodated animal : cosmopolity in Shakespearean locales / Laurie Shannon.

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

xv, 290 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Includes index.

The law's first subjects : animal stakeholders, human tyranny, and the political life of early modern genesis -- A cat may look upon a king : four-footed estate, locomotion, and the prerogative of free animals -- Poor, bare, forked : animal happiness and the zoographic critique of humanity -- Night-rule : the alternative politics of the dark; or, Empires of the nonhuman -- Hang-dog looks : from subjects at law to objects of science in animal trials.