This book digs deep into English Renaissance culture to interrogate representations of horses in the period: it is argues that, ultimately, the horse was a byword for the subjugated and repressed: to be metaphorically like a horse in early modern England is to be bridled, tamed, and curbed.

Acknowledgments and Preface, i.
Introduction
Chapter One, "Pricked More with the Spur then the Provender": Hungry Horses and Woodstock
Chapter Two, Agency and/or Containment? Man/Woman and Horse/Rider Relationships in Early Modern England
Chapter Three, Trampling on the Bald Pate: Morocco the Wonder Horse and the Humiliation of St Paul's
Chapter Four, Laying the World on Your Mare: the Corrupt Horse-Race in Shirley's Hide Parke
Chapter Five, Constructed Combatants: Political Steeds Before, During, and After the Civil Wars
Conclusion
Bibliography