Shakespeare and Disability Studies Sonya Freeman Loftis

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• ISBN 10: 0192650076
• ISBN 13: 9780192650078
• Author: Sonya Freeman Loftis

Shakespeare and Disability Studies argues that an understanding of disability theory is essential for scholars, teachers, and directors who wish to create more inclusive and accessible theatrical and pedagogical encounters with Shakespeare’s plays. Previous work in the field of early modern disability studies has focused largely on Renaissance characters that a modern audience might view as disabled. This volume argues that the conception of disability as residing within individual literary characters limits understandings of disability in Shakespeare: by theorizing disability vis-a-vis characters, previous studies have largely overlooked readers, performers, and audience members who self-identify as disabled. Focusing on issues such as accessible performances, inclusive casting, and Shakespeare-based therapy, Shakespeare and Disability Studies reinvigorates textual approaches to disability in Shakespeare by reading accessibility as an art form and exploring both the powers and potential limits of universal design in theatrical performance. The book examines the complex interdependence among the concepts of theory, access, and inclusion—demonstrating the crucial role of disability theory in building access and examining the ways that access may both open and foreclose inclusive dramatic practice. Shakespeare and Disability Studies challenges Shakespearians, from students to audience members, from classroom teachers to theatre practitioners, to consider how Shakespeare, as industry, as high art, and as cultural symbol, impacts the lived reality of those with disabled bodies and/or minds.

Table of contents:

1. 1. Cripping (and Re-Cripping) Richard: Was Richard III Disabled?
2. Resisting Richard’s Disability in History
3. Resisting Richard’s Disability in Theory
4. Resisting Richard’s Disability on Film
5. Revealing and Concealing Richard: Displaying Disability in The Hollow Crown
6. Internalizing Oppression, Cripping Richard
7. Conclusion: Re-Cripping Richard
8. 2. Making it Accessible: Building Access in Shakespearian Spaces
9. Making Shakespeare Accessible
10. Revolutionizing the Relaxed Performance
11. One Hundred Per Cent Accessible?: Best Practices for Accessible Theatre
12. The Art of Access
13. 3. Play for All: Shakespeare Therapy and the Concept of Inclusion
14. Shakespeare Therapy outside of the Medical Model: DE-CRUIT
15. Autistic Culture and Shakespeare Therapy: the Hunter Heartbeat Method
16. What if Shakespeare is the cure? Passing and Performing Neurotypical
17. ‘This island’s mine’: Resisting the Colonization of Autistic Culture
18. Conclusion: Autistic Ways to Play
19. 4. Neurodiverse Shakespeares: Mental Disability in Still Dreaming
20. Interdependency, Accessibility, and Crip Time in Still Dreaming
21. The ‘Magic’ of Shakespeare: Cure versus Community
22. Afterword: The Brilliant Red of Shakespeare

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