Research Catalog

Title

Early modern theatre and the figure of disability / Genevieve Love.

Author

Love, Genevieve

Publication

• London, UK ; New York, NY : The Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

x, 212 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Arden studies in early modern drama

Uniform Title

Arden studies in early modern drama.

Alternative Title

Early modern theater and the figure of disability

Subjects

• Theater
• 1500-1600
• People with disabilities in literature
• History
• Human body in literature
• English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• People with disabilities and the performing arts
• English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism
• Theater > Great Britain > History
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-207) and index.

Contents

Introduction: 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.

Call Number

JFD 19-970

ISBN

• 9781350017207
• 1350017205
• 9781350017221 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781350017214 (canceled/invalid)
• 1350017213 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2018041883
• 40028628189

OCLC

1020275665

Author

Love, Genevieve, author.

Title

Early modern theatre and the figure of disability / Genevieve Love.

Publisher

London, UK ; New York, NY : The Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Arden studies in early modern drama

Arden studies in early modern drama.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-207) and index.

Chronological Term

1500-1600

Other Form:

Online version: Love, Genevieve, author. Early modern theatre and the figure of disability London ; New York : The Arden Shakespeare/Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 9781350017214 (DLC) 2018048566

Other Standard Identifier

40028628189

Research Call Number

JFD 19-970