Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 309 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: unfixing early modern disability -- Deformed: wanting to see Richard III -- Citizen transformed: being the lame soldier -- Performing cripple in theatrical exchange -- Changing the ugly body -- Playing time, or sick of feigning -- Making the monster -- Coda: inviting performance. |
Summary |
"This book analyzes physical disability in sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century English plays by Shakespeare, Dekker, Jonson, Middleton, and others to show how disability is a product of and catalyst for theatrical performance in the early modern theater"-- Provided by publisher. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Disabilities in the theater -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Disabilities in the theater. |
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England. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
16th century |
Subject |
Disabilities in the theater -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Chronological Term |
17th century |
Subject |
Disabilities in literature.
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Disabilities in literature. |
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
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English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
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English drama. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare. |
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan. |
Chronological Term |
1500-1699 |
Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Schaap Williams, Katherine, 1983- Unfixable forms Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021. 9781501753503 (DLC) 2020056455 |
ISBN |
9781501753527 electronic book |
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1501753525 electronic book |
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9781501753510 electronic book |
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1501753517 electronic book |
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9781501753503 hardcover |
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