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Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama investigates the cultural work done by early modern theatrical performances of disability. Proffering an exp
Dissembling Disability in Early Modern English Drama
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Why do able-bodied characters fake disability in 40 early modern English plays? This book uncovers a previously unexamined theatrical tradition and explores the
Unfixable Forms
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Unfixable Forms explores how theatrical form remakes—and is in turn remade by—early modern disability. Figures described as "deformed," "lame," "crippled,"
Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability
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What work did physically disabled characters do for the early modern theatre? Through a consideration of a range of plays, including Doctor Faustus and Richard
Recovering Disability in Early Modern England
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While early modern selfhood has been explored during the last two decades via a series of historical identity studies involving class, race and ethnicity, and g