Table of Contents
Introduction
1. (De)Facing The Animals: Zooësis and Performance
2. Animal Rites: Performing Beyond the Human
3. Animal Geographies: Zooësis and the Space of Modern Drama
4. "Awk!": Extremity, Animality, and the Aesthetic of Awkwardness in Tennessee Williams’s The Gnädiges Fräulein
5. Zoo Stories: Boundary Work in Theater History
Animalizing Interlude: Zoöpolis
6. Becoming Rhinoceros: Therio-Theatricality as Problem and Promise in Western Drama
7. Bug Bytes: Insects, Information, and Interspecies Theatricality
8. The Silence of the Polar Bears: Performing (Climate) Change in the Theater of Species
9. Queering the Green Man, Reframing the Garden: Marina Zurkow’s Mesocosm (Northumberland UK) and the Theater of Species
10. War Horses and Dead Tigers: Embattled Animals in a Theater of Species
11. Interspecies Diplomacy in Anthropocenic Waters: Performing an Ocean Oriented Ontology