Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 207 pages)
Edition:
2014
ISBN:
9781350017238
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9781350017221
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9781350017214
Series Statement:
Arden studies in early modern drama
Content:
"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
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-207) and index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350017207
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Love, Genevieve Early modern theatre and the figure of disability London : The Arden Shakespeare, 2019 ISBN 9781350017207
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
England
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Drama
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Behinderung
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Geschichte 1558-1603
DOI:
10.5040/9781350017238
URL:
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