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Author King, Kimball.

Title Peering Behind the Curtain : Disability, Illness, and the Extraordinary Body in Contemporary Theatre.

Publication Info. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (194 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in Modern Drama
Studies in modern drama.
Contents Cover; Peering Behind the Curtain; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; General Editor's Note; Peering behind the Curtain: An Introduction; Part I; Between Two Worlds: The Emerging Aesthetic of the National Theater of the Deaf; ""Better Me Than You"": Children of a Lesser God, Deaf Education, and Paternalism; Violence, Pain, Pleasure: Wit; Making an Art out of Suffering: Bill T. Jones's Uncle Tom; ""It Hurts?"": Afflicted Bodies in Beckett's Drama; Depression-the Undiagnosed Disability in Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother.
""Some Unheard-of Thing"": Freaks, Families, and Coming of Age in The Member of the WeddingYoung Doctors Come to See the Elephant Man; Part II; Acting without Limits: Profiles of Three Physically Disabled Performers; Two-Act Play; An Interview with James MacDonald; Balance Is Stillness; Contributors; Index.
Summary First published in 2002.
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Subject American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American drama.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject People with disabilities in literature.
People with disabilities in literature.
Literature and medicine -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century.
Literature and medicine.
English-speaking countries.
History.
English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English drama.
Abnormalities, Human, in literature.
Abnormalities, Human, in literature.
Human body in literature.
Human body in literature.
Diseases in literature.
Diseases in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Sick in literature.
Sick in literature.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Added Author Fahy, Tom.
Other Form: Print version: King, Kimball. Peering Behind the Curtain : Disability, Illness, and the Extraordinary Body in Contemporary Theatre. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2013 9780415929974
ISBN 9781135308964 (electronic book)
1135308969 (electronic book)