Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body

ISBN-13: 9781032242712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 292 str.

Sujata Iyengar

Opis

This book considers early modern and postmodern ideals of health, vigor, ability, beauty, well-being, and happiness, uncovering the complex negotiations among physical embodiment, emotional response, and communally-sanctioned behavior in Shakespeare's world. It visits the history of the body and how early modern cultures understand physical abil

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Shakespeare’s "Discourse of Disability" Sujata Iyengar  PART I: Nation  2. Teeth Before Eyes: Impairment and Invisibility in Shakespeare’s Richard III Allison P. Hobgood  3. A "Grievous Burden": Richard III and the Legacy of Monstrous Birth Geoffrey A. Johns  4. Obsession/Rationality/Agency: Autistic Shakespeare Sonya Freeman Loftis and Lisa Ulevich  5. Seeing Feelingly: Sight and Service in King Lear Amrita Dhar  6. "Strange virtue": Staging Acts of Cure Katherine Schaap Williams  7. Shakespeare and Civic Health Matt Kozusko  PART II: Sex  8. "The King’s Part": James I, The Lake-Ros Affair, and the Play of Purgation Hillary M. Nunn  9. "Gambol Faculties" and "Halting Bravery": Falstaff, Will Kemp, and Impaired Masculinity Catherine E. Doubler  10. Flower Imagery and Botanical Illustration: Health and Sexual Generation in Romeo and Juliet Darlena Ciraulo  11. Shakespeare’s Embodied Ontology of Gender, Air, and Health Sujata Iyengar  PART III: Emotion  12. Speaking Medicine: A Paracelsian Parody of the Humors in The Taming of the Shrew Nathanial B. Smith  13. Catching the Plague: Love, Happiness, Health and Disease in Shakespeare Ian Frederick Moulton  14. Breastfeeding, Grief, and the Fluid Economy of Healthy Children in Shakespeare’s Plays Ariane M. Balizet  15. The Worm and the Flesh: Cankered Bodies in Shakespeare’s Sonnets Alanna Skuse  16. Afterword: Ten Times Happier Katharine A. Craik

O autorze

Sujata Iyengar, Professor of English at the University of Georgia, earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She has written two scholarly monographs, Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England (2005) and Shakespeare’s Medical Language (2011 and 2014).