TY - BOOK AU - Bach,Rebecca Ann TI - Birds and creaturely hierarchies in Renaissance literature: Shakespeare, Descartes, and animal studies SN - 9781138673007 (alk. paper) U1 - 809.93362 23 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Shakespeare, William, KW - English literature KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - History and criticism KW - Animals in literature KW - Birds in literature KW - Human-animal relationships in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: inequality for all -- Feathers, wings, and souls -- The creaturely continuum in A midsummer night's dream -- The lively creaturely/object world of The rape of Lucrece -- Falstaff and "the modern constitution" -- The winter's tale's pedestrian and elite creatures -- Conclusion: human grandiosity/ human responsibility ER -