<p><i>Unfixable Form</i>s locates disability on the early modern stage as both a product of cultural constraints and a spark for performance's unsettling demands and electrifying eventfulness.</p>
Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater
โ Scribed by Katherine Schaap Williams
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 326
- Category
- Library
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