{"product_id":"early-modern-theatre-and-the-figure-of-disability-9781350160361","title":"Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat work did physically disabled characters do for the early modern theatre? Through a consideration of a range of plays, including \u003ci\u003eDoctor Faustus \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRichard III\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 th\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis monograph is important both for performance studies scholars and for literary historians of disability. * Theatre Journal *\u003cbr\u003eLove promotes the “figure of disability” as \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e key figure for the ways that early modern theatre imagined itself, a figuration of and for figuration – this book is a stunner from the very first word to the final full stop. -- Professor Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin University, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eNote on the text\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Disability and\/as Theatricality   \u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e The Work of Standing and of Standing-for:  Disability, Movement, Theatrical Personation in \u003ci\u003eThe Fair Maid of the Exchange\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e The Sound of Prosthetic Movement:  Transnational and Temporal Analogy in \u003ci\u003eA Larum for London\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003e3\u003c\/b\u003e ‘Faustus has his legge again’: Truncation and Prosthesis, Theatricality and Bibliography in \u003ci\u003eDoctor Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003e4\u003c\/b\u003e Richard’s ‘giddy footing’:  Degree of Difference and Cyclical Movement in Shakespeare’s \u003ci\u003eRichard III\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407516115287,"sku":"9781350160361","price":33.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350160361.jpg?v=1730499635","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/early-modern-theatre-and-the-figure-of-disability-9781350160361","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}