Cover page ; Halftitle page ; Series page ; Title page ; Copyright page ; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Organization of the Work; PART I CRITICAL SURVEY OF DISABILITY THEATRE AESTHETICS, POLITICS, AND PRACTICES; CHAPTER 1 WHAT IS DISABILITY THEATRE?; Disability arts and culture; Disability theatre; Keywords; CHAPTER 2 CRITICAL EMBODIMENT AND CASTING; Embodying realism; CHAPTER 3 STAGING INCLUSION; CHAPTER 4 INHERITED PLAYS AND NEW APPROACHES; Graeae Theatre Company: Origins; Graeae's Blood Wedding; Graeae's The Threepenny Opera; Theatre Workshop Scotland and Beckett's Endgame

ConclusionPART II CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES; CHAPTER 5 "EVERY MAN HIS SPECIALTY": BECKETT, DISABILITY, AND DEPENDENCE; I "To decompose is to live, too"; II "What a curse, mobility!"; III "No more nature"; IV Dependent rational animals; CHAPTER 6 RECLAIMING THE ORDINARY EXTRAORDINARY BODY: OR, THE IMPORTANCE OF THE GLASS MENAGERIE FOR LITERARY DISABILITY STUDIES; CHAPTER 7 ACCESS AESTHETICS AND MODERN DRAMA: AN INTERVIEW WITH JENNY SEALEY ON GRAEAE THEATRE COMPANY'S THE THREEPENNY OPERA AND BLOOD WEDDING; CHAPTER 8 SHATTERING THE GLASS MENAGERIE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX