Horses were used for many purposes in Shakespeare's England: for travel, either on horseback or in carriages, for haulage and for pleasure, and for work in the fields. The upper classes were closely involved with horses, for jousting, hunting and racing. Horses was also essential to any army, both as cavalry and to draw supplies and artillery. Horse ownership was, however, much more widespread than might be imagined. "Horses in Shakespeare's England" shows how, in pre-industrial England, horses were bred and trained, what they ate, how much they were worth, how long they lived, and what their owners thought of them. While they were named individually, and sometimes became favourites, many were worked hard and poorly treated, leading to their early deaths. They were, nevertheless an essential part of the life of the time and are strikingly depicted in literature and art, as well in many other records.
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"Peter Edwards, in Horse and Man In Early Modern England, his most recent history of horses, looks forward as he looks back to the uses of these animals during the period...His book is useful, particularly the documentary information he provides...The best one can say about a work is it makes a reader think, and this one does: not only by providing usable facts and figures in tables and graphs, say of market versus fair purchases or the rates of insemination for breeders, but by stimulating us to think in new ways about the world we write and teach...Perhaps most significantly of all is the work's potential utility for the classroom. As if the clear writing weren't argument enough for introducing student to historical research and how to use it in their own research, the structure of the book makes it particularly suitable for the undergraduate classroom...Those who teach undergraduate humanities courses and would like to offer supplemental reading for literature or history in which horses figure prominently, whether in Swift or Shakespeare or in the ethos of early modern kings and commons, will also find this history bridled with gems." -Sandy Feinstein, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, Fall 2008
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Peter Edwards is Professor of History at Roehampton University.
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