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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dunn, Leslie C., editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Literary disability studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

Disabilities in literature.

People with disabilities in literature.

Actors with disabilities.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvii, 327 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Leslie C. Dunn

pt. I The Performance of Disability in Everyday Life

2. Disability and the Work of Performance in Early Modern England / Lindsey Row-Heyveld

3. "By the Knife and Fire": Conceptions of Surgery and Disability in Early Modern Medical Treatises / Jodie Austin

4. "Turn It to a Crutch": Disability and Swordsmanship in The Little French Lawyer / Matthew Carter

5. Mutism and Feminine Silence: Gender, Performance, and Disability in Epicoene / Melissa Hull Geil

6. Contented Cuckolds: Infertility and Queer Reproductive Practice in Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Machiavelli's Mandragola / Simone Chess

7. Reading Shakespeare After Neurodiversity / Wes Folkerth

pt. II Disability as a Metaphor in Dramatic Literature

8. Enabling Rabies in King Lear / Avi Mendelson

9. Limping and Lameness on the Early Modern Stage / Susan Anderson

10. "Lame Humor" in Beaumont and Fletcher's Love's Pilgrimage / Joyce Boro

11. Syphilis Patches: Form and Dramatic History in The Knight of the Burning Pestle / Nancy Simpson-Younger

pt. III The Work of Disabled Artists

12. Sign Gain to Deaf Gain: Deafness in Early Modern Manual Rhetoric and Modern Shakespeare Performances / Jennifer L. Nelson

13. "This Is Miching Mallecho. It Means Mischief": Problematizing Representations of Actors with Down's Syndrome in Growing Up Down's / Sarah Olive

14. Shakespearean Disability Theatre / Leslie C. Dunn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783030572075

3030572072

OCLC:

1231208137