{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-disability-studies-paperback","title":"Shakespeare and Disability Studies - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSonya Freeman Loftis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShakespeare and Disability Studies\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eShakespeare and Disability Studies\u003c\/em\u003e reinvigorates textual approaches to disability in Shakespeare by reading accessibility as an art form and exploring both the powers and\u003cbr\u003epotential 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. \u003cem\u003eShakespeare and Disability Studies\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSonya Freeman Loftis, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of English, Morehouse College\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSonya 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 \u003cem\u003eShakespeare's Surrogates\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and \u003cem\u003eImagining Autism\u003c\/em\u003e (Indiana\u003cbr\u003eUniversity Press, 2015), as well as the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eShakespeare's Hamlet in an Era of Textual Exhaustion\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 2017). Her work on drama and disability has appeared in journals and collections such as \u003cem\u003eShakespeare Survey, The Disability Studies Reader, Disability Studies Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eShakespeare Bulletin\u003c\/em\u003e. She currently serves on the editorial boards of \u003cem\u003eDisability Studies Quarterly, Review of Disability Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOught: The Journal of Autistic Culture.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 08, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42735314272319,"sku":"9780198864547","price":53.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a0f7b284fbc253d27557b98419fc80eb.webp?v=1765143009","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/shakespeare-and-disability-studies-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}