Recovering disability in early modern England / edited by Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood.

Recovering disability in early modern England / edited by Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood.

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2013.

viii, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : ethical staring : disabling the English Renaissance / Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood
Dwarf aesthetics in Spenser's Faerie queene and the early modern court / Sara van den Berg
Maternal culpability in fetal defects : Aphra Behn's satiric interrogations of medical models / Emily Bowles
Disability humor and the meanings of impairment in early modern England / David M. Turner
Antic dispositions : mental and intellectual disabilities in early modern revenge tragedy / Lindsey Row-Heyveld
Disabling allegories in Edmund Spenser's Faerie queene / Rachel E. Hile
Performing blindness : representing disability in early modern popular performance and print / Simone Chess
"There is no suff'ring due" : metatheatricality and disability drag in Volpone / Lauren Coker
Richard recast : Renaissance disability in a postcommunist culture / Marcela Kostihová
The Book of common prayer, theory of mind, and autism in early modern England / Mardy Philippian, Jr
Freedom and (dis)ability in early modern political thought / Nancy J. Hirschmann
Coda : Shakespearean disability pedagogy / Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood.

PR423 .R43 2013