Richard III's Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity by Jeffrey R. Wilson

Richard III's Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity by Jeffrey R. Wilson

Temple University Press,U.S.

Richard III will always be central to English disability history as both man and myth\u2014a disabled medieval king made into a monster by his nation\u2019s most important artist.\nIn Richard III\u2019s Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity, Jeffrey Wilson tracks disability over 500 years, from Richard\u2019s own manuscripts, early Tudor propaganda, and x-rays of sixteenth-century paintings through Shakespeare\u2019s soliloquies, into Samuel Johnson\u2019s editorial notes, the first play produced by an African American Theater company, Freudian psychoanalysis, and the rise of disability theater. For Wilson, the changing meanings of disability created through shifting perspectives in Shakespeare\u2019s plays prefigure a series of modern attempts to understand Richard\u2019s body in different disciplinary contexts\u2014from history\n\nRichard III's Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity\nShakespeare and Disability History\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is;

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