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
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 21, 2021)
