Performing Animality

Introduction: Lourdes Orozco and Jennifer Parker-Starbuck PART I: SETTING THE STAGE 1. From Homo Performans to Interspecies Collaboration: Expanding the Concept of Performance to Include Animals; Laura Cull PART II: BULLS, DOGS, PIGS, BEARS, AND HORSES: ANIMALS IN PERFORMANCE 2. The Art of Fierceness: The Performance of the Spanish Fighting Bull; Garry Marvin 3. 'Genus Porcus Sophisticus': The Learned Pig and the Theatrics of National Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century London; Monica Mattfeld 4. 'A Very Good Act For an Unimportant Place': Animals, Ambivalence, and Abuse in Big-Time Vaudeville; Catherine Young 5. Acrobatic Circus Horses: Military Training to Natural Wildness; Peta Tait PART III: 'PERFORMING' ANIMALS AND 'THEATRES OF SPECIES' 6. Massive Bodies in Mortal Performance: War Horse and the Staging of Anglo-American Equine Experience in Combat; Kim Marra 7. Embattled Animals in a Theatre of Species; Una Chaudhuri 8. Animal Pasts and Presents: Taxidermied Time Travellers;Jennifer Parker-Starbuck 9. Effacing the Human: Rachel Rosenthal, Rats and Shared Creative Agency; Carrie Rohman PART IV: 'LOOKING AT/LOVING/WITH ANIMALS' 10. There and not There: Looking at Animals in Contemporary Theatre Practice; Lourdes Orozco 11. It's Hard to Spot the Queerness in this Image; Holly Hughes Index