TY - BOOK ID - 85664229 TI - Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama PY - 2020 SN - 3030572080 3030572072 PB - Springer International Publishing DB - UniCat KW - Literature, Modern. KW - Fiction. KW - Drama. KW - Performing arts. KW - Early Modern/Renaissance Literature. KW - Performing Arts. KW - Show business KW - Arts KW - Performance art KW - Drama KW - Drama, Modern KW - Dramas KW - Dramatic works KW - Plays KW - Playscripts KW - Stage KW - Literature KW - Dialogue KW - Fiction KW - Metafiction KW - Novellas (Short novels) KW - Novels KW - Stories KW - Novelists KW - Modern literature KW - Arts, Modern KW - Philosophy KW - English drama KW - Disabilities in literature. KW - People with disabilities in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Handicapped in literature KW - Physically handicapped in literature KW - European literature KW - Theater. KW - Early Modern and Renaissance Literature. KW - Fiction Literature. KW - Theatre and Performance Arts. KW - Dramatics KW - Histrionics KW - Professional theater KW - Theatre KW - Performing arts KW - Acting KW - Actors KW - Literature, Renaissance KW - Renaissance literature KW - Literature, Modern KW - Renaissance, 1450-1600. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85664229 AB - 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. . ER -