Unfixable forms : disability, performance, and the early modern English theater / Katherine Schaap Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaap Williams, Katherine, 1983- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disabilities in the theater--England--History--16th century.

Disabilities in the theater.

Disabilities in the theater--England--History--17th century.

Disabilities in literature.

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

English drama.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.

England.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"This book analyzes physical disability in sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century English plays by Shakespeare, Dekker, Jonson, Middleton, and others to show how disability is a product of and catalyst for theatrical performance in the early modern theater"-- Provided by publisher.

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:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Schaap Williams, Katherine, 1983- Unfixable forms.

ISBN:

9781501753503

1501753509

OCLC:

1193590429

Publisher Number:

99995006282