Shakespeare and Disability Studies

Examines the interrelations of Shakespeare studies and disability studies, and demonstrates that Shakespeare can be read through disability theory in ways that need not rely on character-based analysis.

List of contents

• Introduction: Theory, Access, Inclusion


• 1: Cripping (and Re-Cripping) Richard: Was Richard III Disabled?


• 2: Making it Accessible: Building Access in Shakespearian Spaces


• 3: Play for All: Shakespeare Therapy and the Concept of Inclusion


• 4: Neurodiverse Shakespeares: Mental Disability in Still Dreaming


• Afterword: The Brilliant Red of Shakespeare


• Further Reading

About the author

Sonya Freeman Loftis is Director of English and Professor of English at Morehouse College, where she specializes in early modern drama, Shakespeare and appropriation, and disability studies. She is the author of Shakespeare's Surrogates (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Imagining Autism (Indiana University Press, 2015), as well as the co-editor of Shakespeare's Hamlet in an Era of Textual Exhaustion (Routledge, 2017). Her work on drama and disability has appeared in journals and collections such as Shakespeare Survey, The Disability Studies Reader, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Shakespeare Bulletin. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Disability Studies Quarterly, Review of Disability Studies, and Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture.

Summary

Examines the interrelations of Shakespeare studies and disability studies, and demonstrates that Shakespeare can be read through disability theory in ways that need not rely on character-based analysis.

Product details

• Authors: Sonya Freeman Loftis, Sonya (Professor of English Freeman Loftis
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780198864530
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886453-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Oxford Shakespeare Topics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean