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The Great Shakespeare On Animal And Plant Rights

by Wm Shakespeare Monday, Apr. 21, 2014 at 12:40 PM

The great bard had unusual sensitivity to the suffering of animals, birds, fishes

The Great Shakespear...
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Shakespeare On Calves, Deer, Pigs, Horses, Rabbits Beetles, Flies, Bees, Animal Research, Hunting, Plant Consciousness Etc

OF CALVES

Henry VI Part II, act 3, scene 1, lines 202-220

Thou never didst them wrong, nor no man wrong;
and as the butcher takes away the calf,
and binds the wretch, and beats it when it strays,
bearing it to the bloody slaughter-house,
even so, remorseless, have they borne him hence;
and as the dam runs lowing up and down,
looking the way her harmless young one went,
and can do nought but wail her darling's loss.

Hamlet: It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf.

ON DEER

As you like it act 2, scene 1, lines 24-71

Duke s:. come, shall we go and kill us venison?
and yet it irks me, the poor dappled fools,
being native burghers of this desert city,
should in their own confines with forked heads
have their round haunches gor'd.
first lord. indeed, my lord,
the melancholy jaques grieves at that;
and, in that kind, swears you do more usurp
than doth your brother that hath banish'd you.
to-day my lord of amiens and myself
did steal behind him as he lay along
under an oak whose antique root peeps out
upon the brook that brawls along this wood;
to the which place a poor sequester'd stag,
that from the hunters' aim had ta'en a hurt,
did come to languish; and, indeed, my lord,
the wretched animal heav'd forth such groans
that their discharge did stretch his leathern coat
almost to bursting, and the big round tears
cours'd one another down his innocent nose
in piteous chase; and thus the hairy fool,
much marked of the melancholy jaques,
stood on the extremest verge of the swift brook,
augmenting it with tears.
duke s. but what said jaques?
did he not moralize this spectacle?
first lord. o, yes, into a thousand similes.
first, for his weeping into the needless stream;
'poor deer,' quoth he, 'thou mak'st a testament
as worldlings do, giving thy sum of more
to that which had too much: then, being there alone,
left and abandon'd of his velvet friends;
'tis right,' quoth he; 'thus misery doth part
the flux of company:' anon, a careless herd,
full of the pasture, jumps along by him
and never stays to greet him; 'ay,' quoth jaques,
'sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;
'tis just the fashion; wherefore do you look
upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?'
thus most invectively he pierceth through
the body of the country, city, court, '
yea, and of this our life; swearing that we
are mere usurpers, tyrants, and what's worse,
to fright the animals and to kill them up
in their assign'd and native dwelling-place.
duke s. and did you leave him in this contemplation?
sec. lord. we did, my lord, weeping and commenting
upon the sobbing deer.

ON ANIMALS MURDERED INTO MEAT

Twelfth Night; Or What You Will act 1, scene 3, line 46
i am a great eater of beef, and i believe that does harm to my wit.

Antony And Cleopatra: It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh, Which some
did die to look on
*
Henry V
Our grave like Turkish meat shall have a tongueless mouth.
*
Venus And Adonis:
What is thy body but a swallowing grave?
*
Cleopatra:
Thou didst eat strange flesh, which some did die to look on

Much Ado About Nothing:
A man loves meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his old age.

King Lear: the charcter Kent says: "(he is)... A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats'

ON THE CAGING OF BIRDS

Romeo And Juliet: act 2 scene 2

i would have thee gone:
and yet no further than a wanton's bird;
who lets it hop a little from her hand,
like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
and with a silk thread plucks it back again,
so loving-jealous of his liberty.

ON WRENS

Lady Macbeth:
Even the fragile wren, the smallest of birds, will fight against the owl when it
threatens her young .

ON VIVISECTION OR RESEARCH ON ANIMALS WHICH HARDENS THE HEART

Cymbeline act 1, scene 5, lines 7-32

I will try the forces
of these thy compounds on such creatures as
we count not worth the hanging,—but none human,—
to try the vigour of them and apply
allayments to their act, and by them gather
their several virtues and effects.
cor. your highness
shall from this practice but make hard your heart;
besides, the seeing these effects will be
both noisome and infectious.

ON BEARS AND OTHERS

King Lear: Horses are tied by the heads; dogs and bears by the neck; monkeys by the loins, and man by the legs. When a man's over-lusty at legs, then he wears wooden nether stocks

ON HORSE SLAVERY

How like a jade he stood, tied to the tree,
servilely master'd with a leathern rein!

ON BOAR HUNTING

Swine to gore,
whose tushes (tusks) never sheathed he whetteth still,
like to a mortal butcher bent to kill.
*
ON HUNTING RABBITS

Venus And Adonis: The hunted hare...

And when thou hast on foot the purblind hare,
mark the poor wretch, to overshoot his troubles
how he outruns the wind and with what care
he cranks and crosses with a thousand doubles:
the many musets through the which he goes
are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes.

Sometime he runs among a flock of sheep,
to make the cunning hounds mistake their smell,
and sometime where earth-delving conies keep,
to stop the loud pursuers in their yell,
and sometime sorteth with a herd of deer:
danger deviseth shifts; wit waits on fear:

For there his smell with others being mingled,
the hot scent-snuffing hounds are driven to doubt,
ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled
with much ado the cold fault cleanly out;
then do they spend their mouths: echo replies,
as if another chase were in the skies.

By this, poor wat, far off upon a hill,
stands on his hinder legs with listening ear,
to harken if his foes pursue him still:
anon their loud alarums he doth hear;
and now his grief may be compared well
to one sore sick that hears the passing-bell.

Then shalt thou see the dew-bedabbled wretch
turn, and return, indenting with the way;
each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch,
each shadow makes him stop, each murmur stay:
for misery is trodden on by many,
and being low never relieved by any.

Lie quietly, and hear a little more;
nay, do not struggle, for thou shalt not rise:
to make thee hate the hunting of the boar,
unlike myself thou hear'st me moralize,
applying this to that, and so to so;
for love can comment upon every woe.

Puzzled wondering why
so many heads are hollow,
so many mean are walking beasts,
so much brutality blots the land,
such epidemics of violence,
such vertigos of sensuality
inoculate and intoxicate the race.

ON FISHES

Romeo and Juliet Act 2 Scene 4 Oh flesh, how art thou fishified!

King Lear Act 1 Scene One I do profess... to eat no fish (the character Kent)

ON BEETLES

Measure For Measure , act 3, scene 11, lines 85-87 .

isab.…and the poor beetle, that we tread upon,
in corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
as when a giant dies.

ON A FLY

Titus Andronicus: act 3, scene 2, lines 55-80

mar. at that that i have kill'd, my lord; a fly.
tit. out on thee, murderer! thou kill'st my heart;
mine eyes are cloy'd with view of tyranny:
a deed of death, done on the innocent,
becomes not titus' brother. get thee gone;
i see, thou art not for my company.
mar. alas! my lord, i have but kill'd a fly.
tit. but how if that fly had a father and a mother?
how would he hang his slender gilded wings
and buzz lamenting doings in the air!
poor harmless fly,
that, with his pretty buzzing melody,

ON BEES

Henry V Act 1

Obedience: for so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach
the act of order to a peopled kingdom. they have a king and officers of sorts;
where some, like magistrates, correct at home, others, like merchants, venture
trade abroad, others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, make boot upon the
summer's velvet buds, which pillage they with merry march bring home to the
tent-royal of their emperor; who, busied in his majesty, surveys the singing
masons building roofs of gold, the civil citizens kneading up the honey, the
poor mechanic porters crowding in their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, the
sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, delivering o'er to executors pale the lazy
yawning drone

ON SLAUGHTER

Shakespeare in Henry IV spoke of 'civil butchery'

ON PLANT CONSCIOUSNESS

As You Like It: Duke
Senior states: “tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
/ sermons in stone, and good in everything” (2.1.16–17).

variations of these quotes can be seen at
http://postpoems.org/authors/animalpoems
and other forums.
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Compiler -S N Shriver-

Some of Shakespeare's plays are available free in audio form according to the
site
http://www.learnoutloud.com/Catalog/Arts-and-Entertainment/Full-Cast-Dra
on/Henry-IV-Part-One/29963

http://www.learnoutloud.com/content/blog/archives/2010/11/complete_arkan

Some of Shakespeare's plays are available free in audio form according to the
site
http://www.learnoutloud.com/Catalog/Arts-and-Entertainment/Full-Cast-Dra
http://www.learnoutloud.com/content/blog/archives/2010/11/complete_arkan

King Lear free and online http://shakespeare.mit.edu/lear/full.html
http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/uploads/cms/documents/lshannon.pdf
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