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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 way counterfeit disability captivated the Renaissance stage. Through detailed case studies of both lesser-known and canonical plays (by Shakespeare, Jonson, Marston, and others), Lindsey Row-Heyveld demonstrates why counterfeit disability proved so useful to early modern playwrights. Changing approaches to almsgiving in the English Reformation led to increasing concerns about feigned disability. The theater capitalized on those concerns, using the counterfeit-disability tradition to explore issues of charity, epistemology, and spectatorship. 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. The result is the still-pervasive insistence that even genuinely disabled people must perform in order to, paradoxically, prove the authenticity of their impairments.
Pages
244 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2018-08-07
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783319921341
EAN PDF
9783319921358
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
24
Taille du fichier
4792 Ko
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Prix
89,66 €
EAN EPUB
9783319921358
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
24
Taille du fichier
4526 Ko
Ce livre est accessible aux handicaps Voir les informations sur l'accessibilité
Prix
89,66 €
Lindsey Row-Heyveld is Assistant Professor of English at Luther College in Decorah, USA.  

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