Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000

Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History

by Neil Pemberton, Michael F. Worboys

First published in 1972.
The imagery of field sports - of hawking, hunting, shooting and fishing - and the associated imagery of warfare are a striking feature in Shakespeare's plays. The Living Image examines the nature of this imagery, considering it first in the light of the practices and techniques of Elizabethan field sports and weaponry and then its broader metaphoric significance in relation to the themes of the plays.
The contemporary associations of the imagery - the inferences of female sexuality and waywardness from hawking imagery, for example, and the ideals of nobility and courage attached to images of hunting and war are all discussed.

Kindle Edition

First published October 17, 2007

Reviews

[Camilla]

I got about a third of the way through this book about Rabies in Britain. To be fair to the author I was in the middle of my MA whilst reading this and didn't have the time to spend on it before it had to go back to the library.