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Pages: 252
Pages: 252
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-07 - Publisher: Springer
Why do able-bodied characters fake disability in 40 early modern English plays? This book uncovers a previously unexamined theatrical tradition and explores the
Language: en
Pages: 333
Pages: 333
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-04 - Publisher: Springer Nature
Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama investigates the cultural work done by early modern theatrical performances of disability. Proffering an exp
Language: en
Pages: 233
Pages: 233
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
This book examines early modern drama's depiction of non-standard forms of masculinity grounded in superficiality, inauthenticity, affectation, and the display
Language: en
Pages: 228
Pages: 228
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-30 - Publisher: Routledge
Fools and clowns were widely popular characters employed in early modern drama, prose texts and poems mainly as laughter makers, or also as ludicrous metaphoric
Language: en
Pages: 225
Pages: 225
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-01-17 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
The "rogue," a term that described criminals, prostitutes, vagrants, beggars, and the unemployed, dominated the pages of early modern popular crime literature.