Research Catalog

Title

Shakespeare and disability studies / Sonya Freeman Loftis.

Author

Loftis, Sonya Freeman, 1983-

Publication

• Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

143 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"Shakespeare and Disability Studies argues that an understanding of disability theory is essential for scholars, teachers, and directors who wish to create more inclusive and accessible theatrical and pedagogical encounters with Shakespeare's plays. Previous work in the field of early modern disability studies has focused largely on Renaissance characters that a modern audience might view as disabled. This volume argues that the conception of disability as residing within individual literary characters limits understandings of disability in Shakespeare: by theorizing disability vis-a-vis characters, previous studies have largely overlooked readers, performers, and audience members who self-identify as disabled. Focusing on issues such as accessible performances, inclusive casting, and Shakespeare-based therapy, Shakespeare and Disability Studies reinvigorates textual approaches to disability in Shakespeare by reading accessibility as an art form and exploring both the powers and potential limits of universal design in theatrical performance. The book examines the complex interdependence among the concepts of theory, access, and inclusion--demonstrating the crucial role of disability theory in building access and examining the ways that access may both open and foreclose inclusive dramatic practice. Shakespeare and Disability Studies challenges Shakespearians, from students to audience members, from classroom teachers to theatre practitioners, to consider how Shakespeare, as industry, as high art, and as cultural symbol, impacts the lived reality of those with disabled bodies and/or minds"--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Oxford Shakespeare topics

Uniform Title

Oxford Shakespeare topics.

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• People with disabilities in literature
• People with disabilities and the performing arts

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-136) and index.

Contents

Introduction : theory, access, inclusion -- Cripping (and re-cripping) Richard : was Richard III disabled? -- Making it accessible : building access in Shakespearian spaces -- Play for all : Shakespeare therapy and the concept of inclusion -- Neurodiverse Shakespeares : mental disability in Still dreaming -- Afterword : the brilliant red of Shakespeare.

Call Number

*NDB 21-2237

ISBN

• 0198864531
• 9780198864530
• 019886454X
• 9780198864547

LCCN

2020947779

OCLC

1225624361

Author

Loftis, Sonya Freeman, 1983- author.

Title

Shakespeare and disability studies / Sonya Freeman Loftis.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford Shakespeare topics

Oxford Shakespeare topics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-136) and index.

Other Form:

Electronic version: Loftis, Sonya Freeman, 1983- Shakespeare and disability studies. First edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021 9780192650061 (OCoLC)1249693176

Research Call Number

*NDB 21-2237