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Jul 7, 2024 · These knick-knacks are the trappings of vanity and hark back to the association of the ape with the worldly sinner. The outer clothing (boots, gloves, caps, belts) reflects the ape’s fondness for mimicking man—a predilection Topsell mentions as being useful in the capture of apes, because both heavy lead shoes and ‘little Bags made like breeches’ trap the animal in place since ‘they ...
Jul 7, 2024 · Abstract. This chapter looks at Edward Topsell’s History of Four-footed Beasts (1607) and other contemporaneous natural historical writings on apes, in order to delineate the scientific background to which playwrights were responding. It traces the history and literary uses of the early modern monkey back into the classical period, through ...
Jul 7, 2024 · Since classical times, there had been a long-standing association between actors and monkeys. As James Knowles points out, ‘performance disconcertingly raises the possibility that aping, as an action, especially when staged, is actually and simply being an ape, as imitation of men’s actions is the very thing that defines the ape’. 1 ...
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