Overview
- Investigates the relationship between disability and performance in early modern English literature
- Suggests methodologies for interpreting early modern disability in performance
- Theorizes the staging of particular disabilities within their historical and literary contexts while considering the changes in the performance of disability between the early modern period and our own
Part of the book series: Literary Disability Studies (LIDIST)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Performance of Disability in Everyday Life
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Disability as a Metaphor in Dramatic Literature
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The Work of Disabled Artists
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About this book
Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama investigates the cultural work done by early modern theatrical performances of disability. Proffering an expansive view of early modern disability in performance, the contributors suggest methodologies for finding and interpreting it in unexpected contexts. The volume also includes essays on disabled actors whose performances are changing the meanings of disability in Shakespeare for present-day audiences. By combining these two areas of scholarship, this text makes a unique intervention in early modern studies and disability studies alike. Ultimately, the volume generates a conversation that locates and theorizes the staging of particular disabilities within their historical and literary contexts while considering continuity and change in the performance of disability between the early modern period and our own.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Leslie C. Dunn is Professor of English at Vassar College, USA, where she also teaches in the Women’s Studies, Medieval/Renaissance Studies, and Media Studies programs. She co-edited two interdisciplinary collections, Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture (1994) and Gender and Song in Early Modern England (2014). Her research and teaching interests include Shakespeare and early modern drama, gender studies, and disability studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama
Editors: Leslie C. Dunn
Series Title: Literary Disability Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57208-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57207-5Published: 05 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57210-5Published: 06 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-57208-2Published: 04 January 2021
Series ISSN: 2947-7409
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7417
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 327
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Fiction, Drama, Performing Arts