Shakespeare's menagerie: Appendix
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Hog 2 + thorny hedgehog
Boar 1
Dog 6
Hound 7
Cur 1
Ox 1
Mouse 3
Fox 3
Wolf 2
Horse 5
Lion 30
Tiger 1
Creature 1
Beast 6
All’s Well That Ends Well
Swine 1 he will be swine-drunk (Parolles, Act 4.3)
Dog 2
Fox 3
Horse 11
Lion 2
Creature 8
Antony and Cleopatra
Boar 2
Dog 3
Cow 1
Horse 15
Eagle 1
Lion 3
Creature 3
Beast 3
As You Like It
Hog 1 Orlando, 1.1 Shall I keep your hogs and eat husks with them?
Boar 1
Dog 4
Cow 1
Cattle 2
Ox 2
Sheep 5
Lamb 2
Goat 2
Wolves 1
Horse 6
Lion 5
Creature 1
Animal 3
Beast 5
Coriolanus
Dog 5
Hound 2
Sheep 2
Lamb 2
Goat 1
Mouse 1
Fox 2
Wolf 2
Horse 6
Eagle 2
Lion 2
Tiger 2
Beast 4
Cymbeline
Boar 1
Dog 5
Lamb 2
Chicken 1
Goat 1
Fox 1
Wolf 1
Horse 9
Eagle 10
Lion 4
Creature 8
Beast 4
Hamlet
Swinish Hamlet 1.4 They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase/Soil our addition;
Dog 3
Sheep 2
Mouse 3
Fox 1
Horse 8
Lion 1
Creature 5
Beast 8
Animal 5
Henry IV Part 1
Swinish 1 Falstaff Act 4.2 I had a hundred and fifty tattered prodigals lately come from swine-keeping, from eating draff and husks.
Dog 4
Hound 1
Kine 1
Ox 1
Oxen 1
Goat 2
Fox 2
Horse 43
Eagle 2
Lion 11
Creature 3
Beast 5
Henry IV part 2
Sow 1 Falstaff I do here walk before thee like a sow that
hath overwhelmed all her litter but one.
Pig 1 (boar-pig, Doll Tearsheet)
Boar 2
Dog 6
Hound 2
Lamb 1
Mouse 1
Fox 1
Wolf 2
Wolves 1
Horse 14
Lion 2
Monkey 1
Creature 1
Beast 3
Henry V
Sow 1 Constable I could make as true a boast as that, if I had a sow to my mistress.
Pig 2 Fluellen call you the town’s name where Alexander the Pig was born!…
Why, I pray you, is not pig great? the pig, or the great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the
Dog 10
Hound 3
Lamb 2
Goat 3
Mouse 1
Fox 1
Wolves 1
Horse 25
Eagle 1
Lion 4
Tiger 1
Creature 3
Beast 3
Henry VI Part 1
Dog 4
Hound 1
Oxen 2
Sheep 4
Lamb 2
Wolf 3
Horse 12
Eagle 1
Lion 5
Creature 1
Henry VI Part 2
Dog 3
Ox 1
Oxen 2
Sheep 3
Lamb 4
Chicken 2
Fox 3
Wolf 1
Wolves 2
Horse 6
Eagle 2
Lion 2
Creature 1
Beast 1
Henry VI Part 3
Dog 3
Hound 1
Sheep 2
Lamb 5
Fox 1
Wolf 4
Wolves 3
Horse 5
Eagle 3
Lion 7
Tiger 3
Creature 1
Henry VIII
Dog 1
Cow 1
Fox 1
Wolf 1
Horse 4
Lion 1
Creature 6
Julius Caesar
Dog 2
Hound 2
Sheep 1
Lamb 1
Wolf 1
Horse 6
Eagle 1
Lion 6
Creature 4
Beast 4
King John
Swine 1 Bastard (Act 5.2) To hug with swine, to seek sweet safety out
In vaults and prisons
Dog 2
Cow 1
Ox 1
Sheep 1
Lamb 1
Horse 1
Eagle 1
Lion 21 (4 Coeur-de-Lion)
Tiger 1
Creature 2
Beast 1
King Lear
Swine 1 Cordelia, 4.7 and wast thou fain, poor father,
To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn,
In short and musty straw?
Hog 1 Edgar, 3.4 false of heart, light of
ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth,
wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey.
Boar 1
Dog 18
Hound 2
Cow 2 Edmund It is the cowish terror of his spirit, Edgar eats cow-dung for sallets
Sheep 4
Goat 1 Edmund an admirable evasion
of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish
Mouse 1
Fox 5
Wolf 4
Wolves 1
Horse 19
Lion 2
Tiger 1
Creature 4
Beast 4
Animal 1
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Swine 1 Holofernes fire enough for a flint, pearl enough for a swine: ’tis pretty; it is well.
Swinish
Dog 1
Hound 2
Ox 1
Sheep 7
Lamb 2
Mouse 1
Fox 3
Horse 8
Eagle 2
Lion 2
Beast 2
Animal 1
Macbeth
Swine 1
Swinish 1 Lady Macbeth When in swinish sleep
Sow 1 First Witch Pour in sow’s blood, that hath eaten
Her nine farrow;
Pig 1 hedge-pig
Dog 3
Hound 3 (+ long speech on nature of hounds)
Lamb 2
Chicken 1
Goat 1
Wolf 2
Wolves 1
Horse 10
Eagle 1
Lion 2
Tiger 3
Rhino 1
Beast 1
Measure for Measure
Sheep 1
Lamb 2
Fox 2
Horse 1
Lion 2
Creature 1
Beast 5
Much Ado About Nothing
Dog 3
Cow 3
Sheep 1
Lamb 2
Fox 1
Wolves 1
Horse 6
Lion 1
Creature 2
Beast 2
Animal 1
Othello
Dog 7
Hound 1
Goat 3
Wolves 1
Lion 1
Creature 8
Beast 5
Pericles
Mouse 1
Horse 2
Eagle 1
Creature 9
Richard II
Dog 3
Lamb 1
Horse 13
Eagle 2
Lion 4
Creature 2
Beast 3
Richard III
Swine 1. Richmond 5.2 this foul swine
Lies now even in the centre of this isle,
Hog 1. hedgehog, Thou elvish-marked abortive rooting hog
Boar 11
Dog 9
Hound 1
Lamb 3
Wolf 1
Horse 22
Eagle 2
Creature 4
Beast 3
Romeo and Juliet
Pig 1 Mercutio Sometime she gallops o’er a courtier’s nose,
And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;
And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig’s tail
Dog 6
Lamb 4
Mouse 4
Horse 3
Eagle 1
Creature 3
Beat 4
The Comedy of Errors
Pig 2. Dromio of Ephesus The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit,
Dromio 2.1 ‘The pig,’ quoth I, ‘is burn’d;’ ‘My gold!’ quoth he:
Hound 1
Sheep 1
Wolf 1
Horse 2
Tiger 1
Creature 4
Beast 6
The Merchant of Venice
Hog 1 3.5 Launcelot This making Christians will raise the price of hogs: if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money
Pig 2 4.1 Shylock Some men there are love not a gaping pig;..
Why he cannot abide a gaping pig…
Dog 9
Sheep 1
Lamb 2
Goat 1
Wolf 2
Horse 4
Lion 2
Creature 2
Beast 1
Animal 1
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Swine 1 4.2 Mistress Page ‘Tis old, but true,
Still swine eat all the draff.
Hog 3
Dog 11
Hound 1
Cattle 1
Kine 1 Mistress Page And there he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
And makes milch-kine yield blood and shakes a chain
Ox 1
Goat 1
Fox 1
Horse 7
Creature 4
Beast 6
The Taming of the Shrew
Swine 1 Lord O monstrous beast! how like a swine he lies!
Boar 1
Dog 4
Hound 5
Kine 1
Ox 1
Oxen 1
Sheep 1
Lamb 1
Fox 1
Horse 25
Lion 1
Creature 1
Beast 4
The Tempest
Hog hedgehogs
Pig 1 pignuts
Dog 5
Hound 1
Sheep 1
Wolves 1
Horse 1 horse-piss
Lion 2
Creature 7
Beast 4
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Dog 22
Sheep 11
Lamb 1
Fox 1
Horse 3
Lion 2
Tiger 1
Creature 1
Beast 1
The Winter’s Tale
Swine 1. 4.4 Servant Master, there is three carters, three shepherds, three neat-herds, three swine-herds, that have made themselves all men of hair,
Sow 1. Autolycus 4.3 If tinkers may have leave to live,
And bear the sow-skin budget,
Sheep 11
Lamb 1
Wolf 1
Wolves 1
Horse 4
Creature 7
Beast 1
Timon of Athens
Swine 1 Timon 5.1 What a god’s gold,
That he is worshipp’d in a baser temple
Than where swine feed!
Boar 1
Dog 20
Hound 1
Lamb 1
Chicken 1
Fox 3
Wolf 2
Wolves 3
Horse 9
Eagle 2
Lion 4
Tiger 1
Creature 4
Beast 20
Titus Andronicus
Boar 1
Dog 5
Hound 9
Cow 1
Cattle 1
Sheep 1
Lamb 2
Goat 1
Horse 3
Eagle 1
Lion 3
Tiger 5
Creature 2
Beast 5
Troilus and Cressida
Dog 8
Hound 9
Ox 3
Oxen 1
Sheep 1
Lamb 2
Chicken 1
Mouse 1
Fox 2
Wolf 3
Horse 11
Eagle 1
Lion 6
Tiger 2
Creature 1
Beast 3
Twelfth Night
Dog 5
Hound 1
Oxen 1
Sheep 1
Lamb 1
Mouse 2
Fox 2
Wolf 1
Horse 5
Lion 1
Tiger 1
Creature 2
Two Noble Kinsmen
Swine 2
Pig 1
Boar 2
Dog 3
Hound 1
Chicken 1
Lion 4
Wolf 3
Horse 16
Eagle 1
Tiger 2
Creature 2
Beast 6
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