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Author Freeman Loftis, Sonya

Title Shakespeare and Disability Studies
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (115 p.)
Series Oxford Shakespeare Topics Ser
Oxford Shakespeare Topics Ser
Contents Intro -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Theory, Access, Inclusion -- Disability Theory and Shakespeare -- Disability Access and Shakespeare -- Disability Inclusion and Shakespeare -- Cripping Shakespeare Studies -- 1. Cripping (and Re-Cripping) Richard: Was Richard III Disabled? -- Resisting Richard's Disability in History -- Resisting Richard's Disability in Theory -- Resisting Richard's Disability on Film -- Revealing and Concealing Richard: Displaying Disability in The Hollow Crown
Internalizing Oppression, Cripping Richard -- Conclusion: Re-Cripping Richard -- 2. Making it Accessible: Building Access in Shakespearian Spaces -- Making Shakespeare Accessible -- Revolutionizing the Relaxed Performance -- One Hundred Per Cent Accessible?: Best Practices for Accessible Theatre -- The Art of Access -- 3. Play for All: Shakespeare Therapy and the Concept of Inclusion -- Shakespeare Therapy outside of the Medical Model: DE-CRUIT -- Autistic Culture and Shakespeare Therapy: the Hunter Heartbeat Method -- What if Shakespeare is the cure? Passing and Performing Neurotypical
'This island's mine': Resisting the Colonization of Autistic Culture -- Conclusion: Autistic Ways to Play -- 4. Neurodiverse Shakespeares: Mental Disability in Still Dreaming -- Interdependency, Accessibility, and Crip Time in Still Dreaming -- The 'Magic' of Shakespeare: Cure versus Community -- Afterword: The Brilliant Red of Shakespeare -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- AFTERWORD -- Further Reading -- Index
Summary Examines the interrelations of Shakespeare studies and disability studies, and demonstrates that Shakespeare can be read through disability theory in ways that need not rely on character-based analysis
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject People with disabilities in literature.
People with disabilities and the performing arts.
People with disabilities and the performing arts
People with disabilities in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780192650078
0192650076
9780192650061
0192650068