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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 24
IS  - 39
T2  - Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation, and Performance
SP  - 121-135
ID  - bbbl2565
T1  - "'No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity': Compassion and the Nonhuman in Richard III"
AU  - Refskou, Anne Sophie
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2026
DO  - 10.18778/2083-8530.24.08
LA  - English
AB  - Starting from Richard III's rejoinder to Anne's accusation of his cruelty, namely that "No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity" and that therefore he is no beast, uses theories of historical animal studies and posthumanism to reevaluate so-called "human" emotions (especially pity and compassion) as they relate to and manifest in non-human world. Examines Anne and Richard's conversation as evidence of the blurring of the human-animal binary in in the early modern period. Argues Shakespeare's work "unsettles the more familiar notion of compassion as a human species distinction and offers a new way to read the early modern nonhuman." English summary, 121.  
ER  -