"'No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity': Compassion and the Nonhuman in Richard III"
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Author:
	Refskou, Anne Sophie.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2021
Publication Information:
	Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation, and Performance 24, no. 39 (2021): 121–135. (https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/szekspir/article/view/12903)
DOI:
	10.18778/2083-8530.24.08
Annotation:
	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.
	 
Language:
	English
Tags:
	Richard III, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Summer 2024
WSB Record Number:
	bbbl2565