PART 1: The Performance of Disability in Everyday Life Chapter 1. Disability and the Work of Performance in Early Modern England 32 Lindsey Row-Heyveld Chapter 2. 'By the Knife and Fire': Conceptions of Surgery and Disability in 53 Early Modern Medical Treatises Jodie Austin Chapter 3. ''Turn it to a Crutch': Disability and Swordsmanship in The Little 77 French Lawyer Matthew Carter Chapter 4. Mutism and Feminine Silence: Gender, Performance, and Disability 98 in Epicoene Melissa Geil Chapter 5. Contented Cuckolds: Infertility and Queer Reproductive Practice in 122 Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Macchiavelli's Mandragola Simone Chess Chapter 6. Reading Shakespeare After Neurodiversity 148 Wes Folkerth PART II: Disability as a Metaphor in Dramatic Literature Chapter 7. Enabling Rabies in King Lear 168 Avi Mendelson Chapter 8. Limping and Lameness on the Early Modern Stage 192 Susan Anderson Chapter 9. 'Lame Humor' in Beaumont and Fletcher's Love's Pilgrimage 217 Joyce Boro Chapter 10. Syphilis Patches: Form and Disability History in The Knight of the 237 Burning Pestle Nancy Simpson-Younger PART III: The Work of Disabled Artists Chapter 11. Sign Gain to Deaf Gain: Early Modern Manual Rhetoric and 256 Modern Shakespeare Performances Jennifer Nelson Chapter 12. ''This is miching mallecho. It means mischief': Problematizing 273 Representations of Actors with Down Syndrome in Growing Up Downs Sarah Olive.