Katherine Schaap Williams Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater 9781501753503

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Автор: Katherine Schaap Williams
Название: Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater
ISBN: 9781501753503
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Антологии (прозаические)

Литература: история и критика

Литературоведение: пьесы и драматурги

Шекспироведение и критика

ISBN-10: 1501753509
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 330
Вес: 0.06 кг.
Дата издания: 15.06.2021
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 10 b&w halftones - 10 halftones, black and white
Размер: 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.55 cm
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: plays & playwrights,Literature: history & criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
Подзаголовок: Disability, performance, and the early modern english theater
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Поставляется из: Англии
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Unfixable Forms explores how theatrical form remakes—and is in turn remade by—early modern disability. Figures described as deformed, lame, crippled, ugly, sick, and monstrous crowd the stage in English drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In each case, such a description distills cultural expectations about how a body should look and what a body should do—yet, crucially, demands the actors embodied performance. In the early modern theater, concepts of disability collide with the deforming, vulnerable body of the actor. Reading dramatic texts alongside a diverse array of sources, ranging from physic manuals to philosophical essays to monster pamphlets, Katherine Schaap Williams excavates an archive of formal innovation to argue that disability is at the heart of the early modern theaters exploration of what it means to put the body of an actor on the stage.

Offering new interpretations of canonical works by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, and William Rowley, and close readings of little-known plays such as The Fair Maid of the Exchange and A Larum For London, Williams demonstrates how disability cuts across foundational distinctions between nature and art, form and matter, and being and seeming. Situated at the intersections of early modern drama, disability studies, and performance theory, Unfixable Forms locates disability on the early modern stage as both a product of cultural constraints and a spark for performances unsettling demands and electrifying eventfulness.

Дополнительное описание:

Introduction: Unfixing Early Modern Disability
1. Deformed: Wanting to See Richard III
2. Citizen Transformed: Being the Lame Soldier
3. Performing Cripple in Theatrical Exchange
4. Changing the Ugly Body
5. Playing Time, or Si

Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater, Katherine Schaap Williams