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- Title
Dramatic Prosthesis: Embodying Disability in Lear 1.
- Authors
McNabb, Cameron Hunt
- Abstract
Keywords: Shakespeare; King Lear; blindness; madness; performance; embodiment; literary disability studies EN Shakespeare King Lear blindness madness performance embodiment literary disability studies N.PAG N.PAG 1 06/22/23 20230701 NES 230701 Charles Lamb, with the crotchety elitism only nineteenth-century England could engender, famously declared Lear "essentially impossible to be represented on a stage" (para. Early modern disability studies attends to embodiedness through analysis of disability's physical components, such as illness and impairment, as well as analysis of its constructedness, through the social and cultural conditions that shape impaired bodies' experiences of disability. If drama needs bodies to stage disability, and embodying disability changes the way disability functions in a play, what of how audiences receive and interpret those bodies? Borrowing Merri Lisa Johnson and Robert McRuer's definition of " I being with and near i disability, thinking through disabled sensations and situations", she argues that I Lear i 's characters, and by extension the audience, gain disability knowledge through their proximities to disability ("'Known and Feeling Sorrows'" 164, italics original). A number of impairments and disabilities manifest audibly, such as a stutter or vocal tics, and more broadly, as Lear and Edgar demonstrate, those with mental illness or intellectual impairment may not always speak rationally or within conventional social scripts.
- Subjects
KING Lear (Play : Shakespeare); PEOPLE with disabilities; PROSTHETICS; BLIND people; PROSTHESIS design &; construction; DISABILITIES; EARLY modern English drama; PROSTHESIS industry; MENTAL health services
- Publication
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2023, Vol 42, Issue 3/4, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1041-5718
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18061/dsq.v42i3-4.8274