Early modern theatre and the figure of disability / Genevieve Love.
2019
PR658.B63 L69 2019eb
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Title
Early modern theatre and the figure of disability / Genevieve Love.
Author
Love, Genevieve, author.
ISBN
9781350017214 (electronic book)
1350017213 (electronic book)
9781350017221 (electronic book)
1350017221 (electronic book)
9781350017207
1350017205
1350017213 (electronic book)
9781350017221 (electronic book)
1350017221 (electronic book)
9781350017207
1350017205
Published
London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : The Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.
Copyright
©2019
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 212 pages.)
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PR658.B63 L69 2019eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
822/.3093561
Summary
"What work did physically disabled characters do for the early modern theatre? Through a consideration of a range of plays, including Doctor Faustus and Richard III, Genevieve Love argues that the figure of the physically disabled prosthetic body in early modern English theatre mediates a set of related 'likeness problems' that structure the theatrical, textual, and critical lives of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The figure of disability stands for the relationship between actor and character: prosthetic disabled characters with names such as Cripple and Stump capture the simultaneous presence of the fictional and the material, embodied world of the theatre. When the figure of the disabled body exits the stage, it also mediates a second problem of likeness, between plays in their performed and textual forms. While supposedly imperfect textual versions of plays have been characterized as 'lame', the dynamic movement of prosthetic disabled characters in the theatre expands the figural role which disability performs in the relationship between plays on the stage and on the page. Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability reveals how attention to physical disability enriches our understanding of early modern ideas about how theatre works, while illuminating in turn how theatre offers a reframing of disability as metaphor"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Arden studies in early modern drama.
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Early modern theatre and the figure of disability
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Table of Contents
Introduction: disability and/as theatricality
The work of standing and of standing-for: disability, movement, theatrical personation in The fair maid of the exchange
The sound of prosthetic movement: transnational and temporal analogy in A larum for London
"Faustus has his legge again": truncation and prosthesis, theatricality and bibliography in Doctor Faustus
Richard's "giddy footing": degree of difference and cyclical movement in Shakespeare's Richard III.
The work of standing and of standing-for: disability, movement, theatrical personation in The fair maid of the exchange
The sound of prosthetic movement: transnational and temporal analogy in A larum for London
"Faustus has his legge again": truncation and prosthesis, theatricality and bibliography in Doctor Faustus
Richard's "giddy footing": degree of difference and cyclical movement in Shakespeare's Richard III.