1. André du Bouchet, Dans la Chaleur Vacante, Paris: Gallimard, 2000.
2. See Harriet Ritvo, The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990, for the source and substance of these arguments.
3. Richard Southern, The Seven Ages of Theatre, London: Faber, 1973, pp. 1–3.
4. Joseph Roach, The Player’s Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1985, p. 14.
5. Georges Canguillhem, Vital Realist, New York: Zone Books, 2000, p. 16.