Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama

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Acknowledgments Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures 1 Introduction Part I: The Performance of Disability in Everyday Life Part II: Disability as a Metaphor in Dramatic Literature Part III: The Work of Disabled Artists References Part I The Performance of Disability in Everyday Life 2 Disability and the Work of Performance in Early Modern England The Performative Work of Disability and the Performative Work of the Theater Disability and the Work of Performance in The Shoemaker’s Holiday Bibliography 3 “By the Knife and Fire”: Conceptions of Surgery and Disability in Early Modern Medical Treatises Patient Care/Quality of Life Surgery as Craft Subjective Effacement Bibliography 4 “Turn It to a Crutch”: Disability and Swordsmanship in The Little French Lawyer Bibliography 5 Mutism and Feminine Silence: Gender, Performance, and Disability in Epicoene I II III IV Bibliography 6 Contented Cuckolds: Infertility and Queer Reproductive Practice in Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Machiavelli’s Mandragola The Contented Cuckold Infertility, Disability, and Queerness Representing Infertility as a Disability on the Early Modern Stage The Queer Cure Queer Conclusions References 7 Reading Shakespeare After Neurodiversity Robert Armin’s Accounts of Early Modern Fools The Speed of Wit in the Two Gentlemen of Verona Fooling Around with Time: Temporal Anamorphosis on the Early Modern Stage Bibliography Part II Disability as a Metaphor in Dramatic Literature 8 Enabling Rabies in King Lear A Brief History of Doggish Madness Sounding the Hound Works Cited 9 Limping and Lameness on the Early Modern Stage Defining Lameness Rhetorical and Performative Lameness in the Fair Maid of the Exchange and A Larum for London Performing Lameness: The Shoemaker’s Holiday Conclusion: Variability Now in the Taming of the Shrew Bibliography 10 “Lame Humor” in Beaumont and Fletcher’s Love’s Pilgrimage References 11 Syphilis Patches: Form and Dramatic History in The Knight of the Burning Pestle Barber-Surgeons and Grocers Play-Patching and Syphilis-Patching Works Cited Part III The Work of Disabled Artists 12 Sign Gain to Deaf Gain: Deafness in Early Modern Manual Rhetoric and Modern Shakespeare Performances References 13 “This Is Miching Mallecho. It Means Mischief”: Problematizing Representations of Actors with Down’s Syndrome in Growing Up Down’s Shakespeare and Disability Hamlet vs. Growing Up Down’s Ability in Growing Up Down’s Deficit in Growing Up Down’s Problematizing Growing Up Down’s Advocacy Who Are Growing Up Down’s “Wondrous Fools”? Bibliography 14 Shakespearean Disability Theatre The Disabled Actor’s Body Performative Deformity: Richard III Beyond Disability as Metaphor Adaptations and Activism Bibliography Index