LEADER 03913nam 22006131 450 001 9910817548403321 005 20181011024727.0 010 $a1-350-01723-X 010 $a1-350-01721-3 010 $a1-350-01722-1 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350017238 035 $a(CKB)4100000007009644 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5535316 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6162126 035 $a(OCoLC)1061132650 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09262341 035 $a(DLC)2018041883 035 $a(PPN)25803209X 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007009644 100 $a20181015d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aEarly modern theatre and the figure of disability /$fGenevieve Love 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cThe Arden Shakespeare/Bloomsbury Academic,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (225 pages) 225 0 $aArden studies in early modern drama 311 $a1-350-16036-9 311 $a1-350-01720-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 194-207) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: disability and/as theatricality -- The work of standing and of standing-for: disability, movement, theatrical personation in The fair maid of the exchange -- The sound of prosthetic movement: transnational and temporal analogy in A larum for London -- "Faustus has his legge again": truncation and prosthesis, theatricality and bibliography in Doctor Faustus -- Richard's "giddy footing": degree of difference and cyclical movement in Shakespeare's Richard III. 330 $a"What work did physically disabled characters do for the early modern theatre? Through a consideration of a range of plays, including Doctor Faustus and Richard III, Genevieve Love argues that the figure of the physically disabled prosthetic body in early modern English theatre mediates a set of related 'likeness problems' that structure the theatrical, textual, and critical lives of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The figure of disability stands for the relationship between actor and character: prosthetic disabled characters with names such as Cripple and Stump capture the simultaneous presence of the fictional and the material, embodied world of the theatre. When the figure of the disabled body exits the stage, it also mediates a second problem of likeness, between plays in their performed and textual forms. While supposedly imperfect textual versions of plays have been characterized as 'lame', the dynamic movement of prosthetic disabled characters in the theatre expands the figural role which disability performs in the relationship between plays on the stage and on the page. Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability reveals how attention to physical disability enriches our understanding of early modern ideas about how theatre works, while illuminating in turn how theatre offers a reframing of disability as metaphor."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 410 0$aArden studies in early modern drama. 606 $aEnglish drama$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHuman body in literature 606 $aPeople with disabilities and the performing arts 606 $aPeople with disabilities in literature 606 $aTheater$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $2Shakespeare studies & criticism 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHuman body in literature. 615 0$aPeople with disabilities and the performing arts. 615 0$aPeople with disabilities in literature. 615 0$aTheater$xHistory. 676 $a822/.3093561 700 $aLove$b Genevieve$01677037 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817548403321 996 $aEarly modern theatre and the figure of disability$94043643 997 $aUNINA