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OverviewWhat work did physically disabled characters do for the early modern theatre? Through a consideration of a range of plays, including Doctor Faustus and Richard III, Genevieve Love argues that the figure of the physically disabled prosthetic body in early modern English theatre mediates a set of related ‘likeness problems’ that structure the theatrical, textual, and critical lives of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The figure of disability stands for the relationship between actor and character: prosthetic disabled characters with names such as Cripple and Stump capture the simultaneous presence of thefictional and the material, embodied world of the theatre. When the figure of the disabled body exits the stage, it also mediates a second problem of likeness, between plays in their performed and textual forms. While supposedly imperfect textual versions of plays have been characterized as ‘lame’, the dynamic movement of prosthetic disabled characters in the theatre expands the figural role which disability performs in the relationship between plays on the stage and on the page. Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability reveals how attention to physical disability enriches our understanding of early modern ideas about how theatre works, while illuminating in turn how theatre offers a reframing of disability as metaphor. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Genevieve Love , Professor Tanya Pollard , Professor Lisa HopkinsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: The Arden Shakespeare Weight: 0.354kg ISBN: 9781350017207ISBN 10: 1350017205 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 18 October 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsLove promotes the figure of disability as the key figure for the ways that early modern theatre imagined itself, a figuration of and for figuration - this book is a stunner from the very first word to the final full stop. -- Professor Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin University, USA Author InformationGenevieve Love is Associate Professor of English at Colorado College, USA. Her work has appeared in journals including Renaissance Drama, Upstart, Shakespeare Bulletin, and Literature Compass, and in essay collections including Richard II: New Critical Essays, edited by Jeremy Lopez (2012) and Christopher Marlowe, Repertorial Commerce, and the Book Trade, edited by Roslyn Knutson and Kirk Melnikoff (2018). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |