Performing disability in early modern English drama

Performing disability in early modern English drama / Leslie C. Dunn, editor.

Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama investigates the cultural work done by early modern theatrical performances of disability. Proffering an expansive view of early modern disability in performance, the contributors suggest methodologies for finding and interpreting it in unexpected...

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Other Authors: Dunn, Leslie C. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Series:Literary disability studies.
Subjects:
1500-1600
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
Disabilities in literature.
People with disabilities in literature.
Actors with disabilities.
Actors with disabilities
Disabilities in literature
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan
People with disabilities in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • The performance of disability in everyday life. Disability and the work of performance in early modern England / Lindsey Row-Heyveld ; "By the knife and fire" : conceptions of surgery and disability in early modern medical treatises / Jodie Austin ; "Turn it to a crutch" : disability and swordsmanship in The little French lawyer / Matthew Carter ; Mutism and feminine silence : gender, performance, and disability in Epicoene / Melissa Hull Geil ; Contented cuckolds : infertility and queer reproductive practice in Middleton's A chaste maid in Cheapside and Machiavelli's Mandragola / Simone Chess ; Reading Shakespeare after neurodiversity / Wes Folkerth
  • Disability as a metaphor in dramatic literature. Enabling rabies in King Lear / Avi Mendelson ; Limping and lameness on the early modern stage / Susan Anderson ; "Lame humour" in Beaumont and Fletcher's Love's pilgrimage / Joyce Boro ; Syphilis patches : form and dramatic history in The knight of the burning pestle / Nancy Simpson-Younger
  • The work of disabled artists. Sign gain to deaf gain : deafness in early modern manual rhetoric and modern Shakespeare performances / Jennifer L. Nelson ; "This is miching mallecho. It means mischief" : problematizing representations of actors with Down's syndrome in Growing up Down's / Sarah Olive ; Shakespearean disability theatre / Leslie C. Dunn.

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