Dissembling Disability in Early Modern English Drama

ISBN-13: 9783319921341 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 244 str.

Lindsey Row-Heyveld

Opis

Why do able-bodied characters fake disability in 40 early modern English plays? By illuminating this neglected tradition, this book fills an important gap in both disability history and literary studies, and explores how fears of counterfeit disability created a feedback loop of performance and suspicion.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Dissembling Disability in Early Modern England.- 2. Act the Fool: Antonio's Revenge and the Conventions of the Counterfeit-Disability Tradition.- 3. Double Dissimulation: Counterfeit Disability in Bartholomew Fair.- 4. Feminized Disability and Disabled Femininity in Fair Em and The Pilgrim.- 5. Rules of Charity: Richard III and the Counterfeit-Disability Tradition.- 6. Mandated Masquerade: Disability, Metatheater, and Audience Complicity in The Fair Maid of the Exchange and What You Will.- 7. Conclusion: Early Modern Fantasies and Contemporary Realities.

O autorze

Lindsey Row-Heyveld is Assistant Professor of English at Luther College in Decorah, USA.