Dissembling Disability in Early Modern English Drama

• Main Author: Row-Heyveld, Lindsey (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Literary Disability Studies
• Subjects: Literature, Modern.; People with disabilities.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; Disability Studies.

Why do able-bodied characters fake disability in 40 early modern English plays? This book uncovers a previously unexamined theatrical tradition and explores the way counterfeit disability captivated the Renaissance stage. Through detailed case studies of both lesser-known and canonical plays (by Sha...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Dissembling Disability in Early Modern England
• 2. Act the Fool: Antonio's Revenge and the Conventions of the Counterfeit-Disability Tradition
• 3. Double Dissimulation: Counterfeit Disability in Bartholomew Fair
• 4. Feminized Disability and Disabled Femininity in Fair Em and The Pilgrim
• 5. Rules of Charity: Richard III and the Counterfeit-Disability Tradition
• 6. Mandated Masquerade: Disability, Metatheater, and Audience Complicity in The Fair Maid of the Exchange and What You Will
• 7. Conclusion: Early Modern Fantasies and Contemporary Realities.