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. |
Abstract |
"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. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Issued in other form | Online version: Schaap Williams, Katherine, 1983- Unfixable forms. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021 9781501753510 |
Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Genre/form | History. |
LCCN | 2020056455 |
ISBN | 9781501753503 hardcover |
ISBN | 1501753509 hardcover |
ISBN | electronic publication |
ISBN | electronic book |