Unfixable Forms : Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater /

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"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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schaap Williams, Katherine, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan.
English drama.
Disabilities in literature.
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
Disabilities in the theater > England > History > 17th century.
Disabilities in the theater > England > History > 16th century.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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