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Author Love, Genevieve

Title Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability
Published London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages)
Series Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama Ser
Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama Ser
Contents Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE ON TEXTS; Introduction Disability and/as theatricality; 'In similies ... like a good Scholler': the work of likeness in theatre, text and criticism; 'Disability ... as the site of the figural': the problem and possibility of disability as metaphor; 'Disability demands a story': disability and narrative, poetics and performance; 'Unique ontological confusion': doubleness, multiplicity and disappearance in theatrical personation
'Lively action' and 'lamenesse': disability between performance and print'Prosthesis is ... an activity': prosthesis as dynamic verbal and bodily system; 'The tug of metaphor': disability-as-metaphor's metaphorical pull; 1 The work of standing and of standing-for Disability, movement, theatrical personation in; 'The Cripple at work'; 'By this crutch'; To 'mount ... to beare ... to direct ... to waft'; 'Assume this shape of mine'; 'Stand thou'; Twig, timber, wood; 2 The sound of prosthetic movement Transnational and temporal analogy in A Larum for London
'A higher-level form of agility''Full' and 'emptie'; 'Greazie panch' and 'rotten stump'; 'Tickle him a good'; Stump-time; 'My pasport'; 'Sa sa sa sa' Stump: the sounds of the paratext; 3 'Faustus has his legge again' Truncation and prosthesis, theatricality and bibliography in Doctor Faustus; 'Mangled ... and torn thus'; 'Sadly truncated'; 'His head is off'; 'The syntax of the jointed body'; 'Faustus has his legge again'; The 'Faustus effect'; 4 Richard's 'giddy footing' Degree of difference and cyclical movement in Shakespeare's Richard III
The 'crookback prodigy': Richard Gloucester and The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York'Am' or 'and': Richard III's and Richard III's sliding scale; The 'C' and the 'I': Richard on the move; Seeking and straying, halting and passing, stumbling and bustling: Richard's locomotive journey; From English circle to English cycle; Afterword: 'crooked figures'; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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Subject People with disabilities and the performing arts.
People with disabilities in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Literature)
People with disabilities and the performing arts
People with disabilities in literature
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781350017221
1350017221
9781350017214
1350017213