Disability Theatre and Modern Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disability Theatre and Modern Drama write by Kirsty Johnston. This book was released on 2016-04-21. Disability Theatre and Modern Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bertolt Brecht's silent Kattrin in Mother Courage, or the disability performance lessons of his Peachum in The Threepenny Opera; Tennessee Williams' limping Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and hard-of-hearing Bodey in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur; Samuel Beckett's blind Hamm and his physically disabled parents Nagg and Nell in Endgame – these and many further examples attest to disability's critical place in modern drama. This Companion explores how disability performance studies and theatre practice provoke new debate about the place of disability in these works. The book traces the local and international processes and tensions at play in disability theatre, and offers a critical investigation of the challenges its aesthetics pose to mainstream and traditional practice. The book's first part surveys disability theatre's primary principles, critical terms, internal debates and key challenges to theatre practice. Examining specific disability theatre productions of modern drama, it also suggests how disability has been re-envisaged and embodied on stage. In the book's second part, leading disability studies scholars and disability theatre practitioners analyse and creatively re-imagine modern drama, demonstrating how disability aesthetics press practitioners and scholars to rethink these works in generative, valuable and timely ways.
Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama
Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama write by Leslie C. Dunn. This book was released on 2021-01-04. Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama investigates the cultural work done by early modern theatrical performances of disability. Proffering an expansive view of early modern disability in performance, the contributors suggest methodologies for finding and interpreting it in unexpected contexts. The volume also includes essays on disabled actors whose performances are changing the meanings of disability in Shakespeare for present-day audiences. By combining these two areas of scholarship, this text makes a unique intervention in early modern studies and disability studies alike. Ultimately, the volume generates a conversation that locates and theorizes the staging of particular disabilities within their historical and literary contexts while considering continuity and change in the performance of disability between the early modern period and our own.
Peering Behind the Curtain
Peering Behind the Curtain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peering Behind the Curtain write by Kimball King. This book was released on 2013-10-15. Peering Behind the Curtain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume addresses disability in theater, and features all new work, including critical essays, interviews, personal essays, and an original play. It fills a gap in scholarship while promoting the profile of disability in theater. Peering Behind the Curtain examines the issues surrounding disability in many well-known plays, including Children of a Lesser God, The Elephant Man, 'night Mother, and Wit, as well as an original play by James McDonald.
Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability
Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability write by Genevieve Love. This book was released on 2018-10-18. Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What work did physically disabled characters do for the early modern theatre? Through a consideration of a range of plays, including Doctor Faustus and Richard III, 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 thefictional 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 the theatre expands the figural role which disability performs in the relationship between plays on the stage and on the page. Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability reveals how attention to physical disability enriches our understanding of early modern ideas about how theatre works, while illuminating in turn how theatre offers a reframing of disability as metaphor.
Dissembling Disability in Early Modern English Drama
Dissembling Disability in Early Modern English Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dissembling Disability in Early Modern English Drama write by Lindsey Row-Heyveld. This book was released on 2018-08-07. Dissembling Disability in Early Modern English Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do able-bodied characters fake disability in 40 early modern English plays? This book uncovers a previously unexamined theatrical tradition and explores the way counterfeit disability captivated the Renaissance stage. Through detailed case studies of both lesser-known and canonical plays (by Shakespeare, Jonson, Marston, and others), Lindsey Row-Heyveld demonstrates why counterfeit disability proved so useful to early modern playwrights. Changing approaches to almsgiving in the English Reformation led to increasing concerns about feigned disability. The theater capitalized on those concerns, using the counterfeit-disability tradition to explore issues of charity, epistemology, and spectatorship. By illuminating this neglected tradition, this book fills an important gap in both disability history and literary studies, and explores how fears of counterfeit disability created a feedback loop of performance and suspicion. The result is the still-pervasive insistence that even genuinely disabled people must perform in order to, paradoxically, prove the authenticity of their impairments.
