Unfixable forms : disability, performance, and the early modern English theater /
Schaap Williams, Katherine, 1983-
Unfixable forms : disability, performance, and the early modern English theater / Katherine Schaap Williams. - 1 online resource (xiii, 309 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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"--
9781501753527 9781501753510
2020056456
Disabilities in the theater--History--England--16th century.
Disabilities in literature.
English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
Electronic Books.
PN2179 / .U545 2021
Unfixable forms : disability, performance, and the early modern English theater / Katherine Schaap Williams. - 1 online resource (xiii, 309 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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"--
9781501753527 9781501753510
2020056456
Disabilities in the theater--History--England--16th century.
Disabilities in literature.
English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
Electronic Books.
PN2179 / .U545 2021