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Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
2018.
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| Colección: | Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE ON TEXTS; Introduction Disability and/as theatricality; 'In similies ... like a good Scholler': the work of likeness in theatre, text and criticism; 'Disability ... as the site of the figural': the problem and possibility of disability as metaphor; 'Disability demands a story': disability and narrative, poetics and performance; 'Unique ontological confusion': doubleness, multiplicity and disappearance in theatrical personation.
- 'Lively action' and 'lamenesse': disability between performance and print'Prosthesis is ... an activity': prosthesis as dynamic verbal and bodily system; 'The tug of metaphor': disability-as-metaphor's metaphorical pull; 1 The work of standing and of standing-for Disability, movement, theatrical personation in; 'The Cripple at work'; 'By this crutch'; To 'mount ... to beare ... to direct ... to waft'; 'Assume this shape of mine'; 'Stand thou'; Twig, timber, wood; 2 The sound of prosthetic movement Transnational and temporal analogy in A Larum for London.
- 'A higher-level form of agility''Full' and 'emptie'; 'Greazie panch' and 'rotten stump'; 'Tickle him a good'; Stump-time; 'My pasport'; 'Sa sa sa sa' Stump: the sounds of the paratext; 3 'Faustus has his legge again' Truncation and prosthesis, theatricality and bibliography in Doctor Faustus; 'Mangled ... and torn thus'; 'Sadly truncated'; 'His head is off'; 'The syntax of the jointed body'; 'Faustus has his legge again'; The 'Faustus effect'; 4 Richard's 'giddy footing' Degree of difference and cyclical movement in Shakespeare's Richard III.
- The 'crookback prodigy': Richard Gloucester and The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York'Am' or 'and': Richard III's and Richard III's sliding scale; The 'C' and the 'I': Richard on the move; Seeking and straying, halting and passing, stumbling and bustling: Richard's locomotive journey; From English circle to English cycle; Afterword: 'crooked figures'; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.