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William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure

(Act 3, Scene 1, Lines 86-88.)


[1603] William Shakespeare, Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will, in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, edited by W. J. Craig (London: Oxford University Press: 1914;Online at Bartleby.com, 2000).

And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.

Animal Rights History Timeline: Renaissance [1450-1660]
[Reformation-English Renaissance]


Animal Rights History-Timeline

[c1564-1616] Shakespeare William Shakespeare

[1593] Venus and Adonis
[1593] Titus Andronicus
[1597] King Henry, Part Two
[1600] As You Like It
[1602] Twelfth-Night; What You Will
[1603] Measure for Measure
[1609] Cymbeline

William Shakespeare



Animal Rights History Timeline: Renaissance [1450-1660]
[Reformation-English Renaissance]


[—Activists-Advocates-Authors]
[—Early Anti-Cruelty Legislation]


[Abstinence from Animal Food]
[Animal Rights Quotes]
[Animal Rights Law]
[Anti-Vivisection Quotes]
[Humane Education, Teaching Children Kindness to Animals]
[Hunting, Blood-Sports Cruelty]
[Poetry-Plays; Humane Poets]
[Religion-Religious Quotes
Sermons Against Animal Cruelty]
[Souls, Immortality, Future Life]
[Humanity-Justice-Kindness]
[Intelligence-Reason-Emotion]
[Make Compassion the Fashion;
Beauty-Feathers-Fur-Leather]
[Cruelty-Slavery of Animals]
[Strait from the Horse's Mouth:
Words from Animals Themselves]
[Vegetarians-Vegans; Cruelty of Slaughter, Abstinence-Animals]


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[1450-1660] Reniassance
[1660-1785] Englightenment
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