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Unfixable forms : disability, performance, and the early modern English theater / Katherine Schaap Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schaap Williams, Katherine, 1983- author.
- Series:
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Cornell scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disabilities in the theater--History--England--17th century.
- Disabilities in the theater.
- Disabilities in the theater--History--England--16th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, New York ; London, England : Cornell University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- 'Unfixable Forms' locates disability on the early modern stage as both a product of cultural constraints and a spark for performance's unsettling demands and electrifying eventfulness.
- Contents:
- Introduction: unfixing early modern disability
- Deformed: wanting to see Richard III
- Citizen transformed: being the lame soldier
- Performing cripple in theatrical exchange
- Changing the ugly body
- Playing time, or sick of feigning
- Making the monster
- Coda: inviting performance.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 6, 2021).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5017-8684-9
- 1-5017-5351-7
- OCLC:
- 1257324576
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